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"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
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."	Aristotle
"Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."	Leonard Bernstein
"Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion."	T. S. Eliot
"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."	Sir Francis Bacon
"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
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."	Herbert Kaufman
"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."	Rob Gilbert
"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."	Eustace Budgell
"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."	William James
"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."	Nathaniel Emmons
"Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth."	George Crabbe
"Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction."	Juliene Berk
"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
"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
"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia."	Hans Albrecht Bethe
"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
"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
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Abraham Lincoln	Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alexis Carrel
Alfred A. Montapert	Antonio Gramsci	Aristotle
Charles Dickens	Charles Robert Darwin	Claude Adrien Helvetius
Dean Gooderham Acheson	Earl Nightingale	Edward C. Banfield
Eustace Budgell	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	General Charles De Gaulle
George Crabbe	George Dana Boardman	George Washington Carver
Hans Albrecht Bethe	Herbert Kaufman	Isabel Colegate
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	John Dryden	Juliene Berk
Kahlil Gibran	Leonard Bernstein	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Napolean Hill	Nathaniel Emmons
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	Og Mandino	Orison Swett Marden
Rob Gilbert	Sir Francis Bacon	Stephen R. Covey
Tryon Edwards	T. S. Eliot	Ugo Betti
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Wallace Irwin	Wanda Carter
William James	William R. Matthews	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham