"You have proved it is a very moral habit."
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"There are no laws of nature; there are habits of nature."
"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."
"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."
"I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit."
"Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well."
"He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer."
"We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves."
"We are mere bundles of habits."
"We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...""
"Habit is the great flywheel of society."
"New habits can be launched."
"I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it."
"We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past."
"Unpunctuality is a vile habit."
"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 The unpublished parts will appear later...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."