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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Laws are never as effective as habits."
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Personal Development
"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."
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Personal Development
"I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However, when the goal is to feel terrific, isn't it worth your consideration?"
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Personal Development
"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
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Personal Development
"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
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Personal Development
"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."
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Personal Development
"Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."
Power
"When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear."
Courage
"This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike."
Behavior
"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless."
Empowerment
"That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music had been withheld. We could not sing along, though we always knew the words. Still, defiantly, we roared our tuneless roars, we fell off the high notes and were trampled by the low ones. And if bitter ices were the consequence, well, there were worse fates in the world than that."
Expression
"When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent."
Philosophy
"How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized."
Courage
"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
Events
"Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment."
Mental Health
"The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins."
Morality
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