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"Winning is a habit."
Leo Durocher
"Winning is a habit."
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"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state."
Alcee Hastings
"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state."
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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."
Jean de la Bruyere
"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."
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"I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes."
Mike Ditka
"I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes."
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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
Mark Twain
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
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"Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before."
Mike Hawkins
"Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before."
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"The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past."
Matt Blunt
"The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past."
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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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"It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits."
Shirley Jones
"It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits."
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"The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study."
Maria Mitchell
"The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study."
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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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"The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones."
Jerome Hines
"The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones."
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"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
Vince Lombardi
"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
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"I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being."
Claire Danes
"I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being."
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"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."
Edith Wharton
"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
Jules Renard
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
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"Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught."
Kin Hubbard
"Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught."
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"Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."
Alphonse de Lamartine
"Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."
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"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."
Publilius Syrus
"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."
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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."
Alfred Doblin
"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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"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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"Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results."
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
"Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results."
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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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"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."
Delia Smith
"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."
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"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."
Patrick White
"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."
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"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."
Charles Farrar Browne
"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."
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"It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions."
Frederick Robertson
"It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions."
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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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"One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."
Helen Hayes
"One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."
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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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"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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"Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them."
Frank Howard Clark
"Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them."
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"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit."
Joe Eszterhas
"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are 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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"If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated."
Paul Williams
"If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated."
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"We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit."
Morley Safer
"We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit."
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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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"We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort."
Christopher Morley
"We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort."
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"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively."
W. Clement Stone
"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively."
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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 know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now."
Dick Van Dyke
"You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now."
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"I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it."
Fred Frith
"I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it."
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"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
Jean Cocteau
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
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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."
Chris LeDoux
"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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"It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone."
Merrill Markoe
"It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone."
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"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm."
Hippocrates
"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm."
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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
Thomas Paine
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
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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 bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late."
Ogden Nash
"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late."
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"Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted."
Carolyn Heilbrun
"Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted."
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