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"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."	Abraham Lincoln
"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation…. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths."	Alexis Carrel
"We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends."	Alfred A. Montapert
"In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period?"	Antonio Gramsci
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."	Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."	Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit."	Aristotle
"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time..."	Charles Dickens
"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits."	Charles Robert Darwin
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."	Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding."	Dean Gooderham Acheson
"The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers."	Earl Nightingale
"Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society."	Edward C. Banfield
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."	Eustace Budgell
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time."	General Charles De Gaulle
"Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth."	George Crabbe
"Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny."	George Dana Boardman
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."	George Washington Carver
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Eustace Budgell	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	General Charles De Gaulle
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