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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life,…
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No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your…
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To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.
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Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it…
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I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with…
— Marcel Duchamp
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The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming
— Lucian Freud
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In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion…
— Twyla Tharp
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In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the…
— Thomas Merton
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Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift…
— Russell M. Nelson
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Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it…
— Heinz Hopf
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I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out…
— Warren Buffett
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For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin,…
— Mordecai Richler
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