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"Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth."	George Crabbe
"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits."	Charles Robert Darwin
"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
"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
"Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."	John Dryden
"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."	John Dryden
"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."	Tryon Edwards
"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
"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."	Nathaniel Emmons
"Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?"	Kahlil Gibran
"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."	Rob Gilbert
"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
"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
"Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy."	Napolean Hill
"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
"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."	Wallace Irwin
"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed."	William James
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."	William James
"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."	William James
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."	Herbert Kaufman
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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