"Habit is a great deadener."
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"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?"
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"The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself."
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"To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it."
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"I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends."
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"Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance."
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"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."
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"Don't let your sins turn into bad habits."
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"A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control."
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"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to"
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"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking."
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"95% of everything you do is the result of habit."
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"If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment."
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"I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else."
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"Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you."
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"If you want to develop courage, then simply act courageously when it's called for. If you do something over and over again, you develop a habit. Some people develop the habit of courage. Some people develop the habit of non-courage."
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"Watch your actions, they become your habits."
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"It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits."
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"For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately."
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"Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!"
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