"Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood."

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"Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood."

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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

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"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state."

Alcee Hastings, American Politician

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"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."

William James, American Philosopher

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"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

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"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."

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"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."

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"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."

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"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

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"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."

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"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

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"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

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"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."

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"If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it."

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