"Laws are never as effective as habits."

Habit, Habits, Laws

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"Laws are never as effective as habits."

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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."

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"Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

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"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

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"A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."

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"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."

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"With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?"

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"Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation."

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"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."

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"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."

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"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

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