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"Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all."
"I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke."
"Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts."
"Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit."
"One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others."
"Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that."
"Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly."
"For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it."
"The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming"
