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“It doesn't follow that a nasty habit of mind is any less nasty because it's ancestral. It doesn't follow you can't cure it. Why scratch fleas for ever? Gambling, speculation, is a social disease. I...”
“Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.”
“The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the so...”
“At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It is in the thick o...”
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or ...”
“Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.”
“Custom is second nature and no less powerful.”
“Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”
“He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.”
“In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.”
“She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”
“There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of m...”
“Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.”
“Custom that unwritten law By which the people keep even kings in awe.”
“Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.”
“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of suc...”
“Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.”
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.”
“When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.”
“Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.”
