Quotes 4521 till 4540 of 20393.
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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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.
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Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
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Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.
Faceboek (2012) -
Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
Original:Si hubiera estado presente en la Creación, habría dado algunas indicaciones útiles.
Thomas Carlyle, History of Frederick the Great -
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
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Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.
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Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
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Had it been us staging the Games, I don't think we would necessarily have done the switcheroo with the girl with the braces
Boris Johnson In Beijing, The Guardian, 21 August 2008 -
Had it not been for 'The Apprentice' and Donald Trump, I wouldn't have met my wife through an interview with 'E! News.'
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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
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Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.
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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XVIII, 11, 16
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