"Habit has a kind of poetry." — Simone de Beauvoir

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
• Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
• Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate… — Aristotle
• The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the… — Aristotle
• We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also… — David Attenborough
• They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this… — Chinua Achebe
• Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you… — Margaret Atwood
• If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a… — Margaret Atwood
• I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon

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