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"Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding."	Dean Gooderham Acheson
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."	Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."	Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit."	Aristotle
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society."	Edward C. Banfield
"Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction."	Juliene Berk
"Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."	Leonard Bernstein
"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia."	Hans Albrecht Bethe
"Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber."	Ugo Betti
"Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny."	George Dana Boardman
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."	Eustace Budgell
"If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths."	Alexis Carrel
"Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in."	Wanda Carter
"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."	George Washington Carver
"It's not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them."	Isabel Colegate
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."	Stephen R. Covey
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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