#bits

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

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I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it. ↗

— Fred Frith

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Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. ↗

— Charles J. Givens

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The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat. ↗

— Susan George

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Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

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Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans. ↗

— Ron Lewis

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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that. ↗

— Laura Linney

#blown #die #fall #go #iraq

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits. ↗

— Eric Liu

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