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  1. James Hilton _ Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

    He was forty-eight - an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable.
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  2. Stephen R. Covey _ The 7 Habits of Highly

    I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,
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  3. Robert J. Allison _ Before 1776: Life in the

    Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.
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  4. Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

    You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.
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  5. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings

    And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
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  6. Rebecca Goldstein _ Plato at the Googleplex: Why

    I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.
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  7. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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  8. Philip Roth _ Exit Ghost

    For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
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  9. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty. But he would be mistaken. Under that one light unstirred by movement or shadows there is a man at work, and as long as I am at work I am not a candidate for Menlo Park, or that terminal facility they cynically call a convalescent hospital, or a pine box. My habits and the unchanging season sustain me. Evil is what questions and disrupts.
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