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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity."
Simon Newcomb
"As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."
Vince Lombardi
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."
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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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"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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"Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting."
Jack Osbourne
"Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting."
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"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired."
David Lloyd George
"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired."
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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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"Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability."
Sargent Shriver
"Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability."
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"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."
Robert Green Ingersoll
"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."
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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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"The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it."
Leo Aikman
"The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it."
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"I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper."
Eric Taylor
"I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper."
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"I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits."
David James Elliott
"I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits."
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"I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."
Anderson Cooper
"I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."
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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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"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."
Robert B. Laughlin
"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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"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."
Charles Kuralt
"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."
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"The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts."
Henry Moore
"The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts."
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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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"Habit is stronger than reason."
George Santayana
"Habit is stronger than reason."
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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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"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."
Emile M. Cioran
"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."
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"PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux."
Wallis Simpson
"PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad."
Jose Bergamin
"There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad."
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"Habit is a great deadener."
Samuel Beckett
"Habit is a great deadener."
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"In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!"
Edmund Husserl
"In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!"
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"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
Antoine Rivarol
"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
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"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."
Ernest Dimnet
"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."
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"Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable."
Loretta Young
"Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable."
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