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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"The Enron scandal continues. The U.S. Senate has announced they are going to subpoena Ken Lay and make him testify. Apparently Lay received the subpoena this morning and then, out of habit, immediately shredded it."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple."

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Asher Roth Rapper
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"Humans are such creatures of habit that once they get us in all this debt that we accumulate from going college that we have to work it off for the rest of our lives."

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Ariel Gore Author
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"My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past."

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Salvador Dali Artist, Surrealist
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"Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies."

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