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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr.… — Charles Darwin
As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different… — Barack Obama
No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because… — Sam Snead
To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast. — Sam Snead
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis… — Marcel Proust
Habits change into character. — Ovid
Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys. — Rita Schiano
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring… — Rumer Godden
The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it… — George Santayana
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is… — Brooks Atkinson
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become… — Friedrich Nietzsche
How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. — Elizabeth Bowen
An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit… — H. L. Mencken
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit… — Florence Nightingale
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that… — Thomas Jefferson
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in… — Charles Caleb Colton
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and… — Joseph Addison
Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes… — Ugo Betti

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