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"When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky."
Tycho Brahe
"When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky."
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"Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit."
Ovid
"Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit."
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"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
Samuel Johnson
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
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"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have."
Rene Descartes
"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have."
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"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."
Charles A. Jaffe
"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."
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"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."
Chinua Achebe
"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."
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"I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it."
Satyajit Ray
"I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it."
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"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it."
Horace Mann
"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it."
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"You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way."
Al Kaline
"You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way."
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"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
Robert Baden-Powell
"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
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"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
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"I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer."
Francis W. Newman
"I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer."
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"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."
Vince Lombardi
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."
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"Habit is stronger than reason."
George Santayana
"Habit is stronger than reason."
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"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."
Tryon Edwards
"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."
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"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits."
Charles Darwin
"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits."
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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
"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."
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"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."
Anthony Burgess
"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."
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"Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two."
Balthazar Getty
"Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two."
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"The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit."
Martin Henderson
"The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit."
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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."
Norman Cousins
"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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"Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing."
Holbrook Jackson
"Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing."
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"Habit is a great deadener."
Samuel Beckett
"Habit is a great deadener."
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"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."
Rich Little
"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."
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"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."
James A. Baldwin
"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."
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"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
Benjamin Franklin
"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
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"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things."
Edward Everett Hale
"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things."
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"I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside."
Stuart Chase
"I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside."
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"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you."
Frank Crane
"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you."
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"You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit."
Joe Paterno
"You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit."
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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."
Josh Duhamel
"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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"I am not a creature of habit."
Tony Visconti
"I am not a creature of habit."
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"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making."
Salvador Dali
"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making."
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"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."
Charles Simmons
"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."
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"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."
Sydney Smith
"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."
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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
"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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"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
Desiderius Erasmus
"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
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"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
G. Stanley Hall
"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
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"President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear."
Wilbur Mills
"President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear."
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"Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit."
Rutherford B. Hayes
"Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit."
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"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
Antoine Rivarol
"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
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"Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct."
Henry Williamson
"Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct."
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"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"
Herman Melville
"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"
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"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
George Bernard Shaw
"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
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"Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting."
Jack Osbourne
"Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting."
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"Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."
Henry Van Dyke
"Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."
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"Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing."
Maxine Hong Kingston
"Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing."
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"I got nasty habits; I take tea at three."
Mick Jagger
"I got nasty habits; I take tea at three."
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"It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive."
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"The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns."
Bryant McGill
"The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns."
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