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"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
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"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
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"To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed."
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"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
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"Habit is the nursery of errors."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor."
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"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
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"Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch."
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"There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that."
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"Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too."
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"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known."
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"To know nothing is the happiest life."
Life

"Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders."
Old

"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."
Nature

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
Opportunity

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
Peace

"Don't give your advice before you are called upon."
Advice

"Fortune favors the audacious."
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"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."
Reflection

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."
Experience
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