#bits

Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke. ↗

— Al Purdy

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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. ↗

— Quintilian

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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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Vices are often habits rather than passions. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ↗

— Mark Twain

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I can hypnotize rabbits. ↗

— Elena Anaya

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The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ↗

— Robert Hall

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