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I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

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Brandon SandersonAlcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens

As the uneasiness and... reluctance to face [his problems] cut him off more and more from all real h...

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Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...

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The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understa...

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What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that ...

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He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by follow...

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Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread...

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The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop o...

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During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head...

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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensi...

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I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to ...

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Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your ...

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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, ...

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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentra...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over,...

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Nicole KraussMan Walks Into a Room

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

I will form good habits and become their slave.

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Salesman in the World

Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.

Why, Reshi?"The words poured out of Bast in a sudden gush. "Why did you stay there when it was so aw...

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For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.

Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous habit.’‘I agree, Grandmamm...

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You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe ...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a char...

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Samuel SmilesHappy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

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Thomas HughesTom Brown's Schooldays

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a sing...

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I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one ...

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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommo...

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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people...

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"You become what you do most of the time."

"It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently."

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept ...

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Cultivate the habit of making aware choice. Your choice makes your destiny. Do not be carried away b...

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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtract...

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