#habits

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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

— Quintilian

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Vices are often habits rather than passions. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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

— Mark Twain

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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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Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. ↗

— William James

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Good habits are worth being fanatical about. ↗

— John Irving

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I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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