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Too
often people find themselves falling into the habit
of telling little white lies and tall tales in an
effort to get ahead or to avoid getting into trouble.
By consciously making an effort to be truthful, we
remember that telling the truth really is an important
way to feel good about ourselves.
As
more and more people stand up for their better
world principles, it will become easier to make
the right choices and doing the right thing will become
a habit we don't even have to consciously think about.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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We
are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not
an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit.
We become just by doing just acts,
temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing
brave acts.
-- Aristotle
(384-322 BC)
"It
is easy to perform a good action,
but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing
such actions."
-- Aristotle
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"We
should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our
boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow
sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and
thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others...
Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which
recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims
of others and which lead our country into comradeship
with...the other nations of the world. The first step
to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within
our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to
its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies
of town against town, class against class and sect against
sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling
beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours."
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The
American fast food diet and the meat eating habits
of the wealthy around the world support a world food
system that diverts food resources from the hungry.
A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower
in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves
but also contributes to changing the world system
that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.
-- Dr.Walden
Bello
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"The
power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed
change the habits of people. This change is not the
result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
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-- Stephen
Biko
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"Friendship
is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell (1711)
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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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Man
is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can
be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized
and understood.
-- Norman
Cousins
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The
aim of education is to enable individuals to continue
their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning
is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot
be applied to all the members of a society except where
intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where
there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of
social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation
arising from equitably distributed interests. And this
means a democratic society.
-- John
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The
only way children can learn the habit of forgiveness
is by seeing us, their parents, forgive others and
forgive ourselves.
-- Naomi
Drew
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If
you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit;
give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
-- Epictetus
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Each
year one vicious habit discarded,
in time might make the worst of us good.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
It
is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
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Make
a habit of two things--to help, or at least, to do no harm.
-- Hippocrates
Genius
means little more than the faculty of perceiving in
an unhabitual way.
-- William James
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"We
have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures
of power, indescribably complicated problems to
solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether
and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence
of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is
as possible and as urgent to put an end to war
and violence between nations as it is to put an
end to poverty and racial injustice."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
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Tolerance
is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's
beliefs,
practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or
accepting them.
-- Joshua Liebman
Creativity
can solve almost any problem.
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes
everything.
-- George Lois
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A
long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it
a superficial appearance of being right.
-- Thomas
Paine
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The
strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his
special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
~Blaise Pascal
Practice
hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a
permanently happy spirit.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides,
a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search
for logical grounds in favour of the belief which
he finds in himself.
-- Bertrand
Russell
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Finding
the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean
of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence,
vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't
practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot
hope to solve the truly serious problems that face
us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up
for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
-- Carl
Sagan
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"So
I would hope they would develop some kind of habit
that involves understanding that their life is so
full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways
to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality."
-- Susan
Sarandon
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What
a man believes may be ascertained not from his creed,
but from assumptions on which he habitually acts.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
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Love
is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which
becomes a habit.
-- Peter
Ustinov
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"Little
kindnesses...will broaden your heart,
and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow
man in many ways."
--Zadik
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