#habits

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

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I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

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I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets. ↗

— Chris Pratt

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. ↗

— John Dryden

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When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. ↗

— George William Russell

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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food. ↗

— Angie Stone

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Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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