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“It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.”

Mind Wells Children Age Purpose Answers Five One Thing Objects Inspire Industry Habit Importance Twenties Prepared Active Observation Juvenile

Book:The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

Source: The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

“Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.”

May History Habit Discipline Fruit Patient Active Diligence Roman Empire Often Is Valour

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.”

Desire Dangerous Habit Creatures Active Dues Flesh Lust Tendencies Temptation Flames Inaction Indolence Creatures Of Habit

Author:Sigrid Undset

“You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.”

Needs Stills Parent Poor Habit Eating Active Need You I Need You Eating Habits

Author:Bob Harper

“You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!”

Needs Desire Fall Politics Marriage Proud Habit Active Be Proud Sloth Fall Back Proud Of Me

Book:Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends

Source: Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends

“Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.”

World States Moving Steps Environment Communication Habit Patterns Active Block Factors Recognition Data Instant Classification Instant Communication

Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.”

Men Doe Soul Events Fine Habit Exercise Spring Excellence Lifetime Active Faculty Fine Day

Author:Aristotle

“The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.”

Virtue Habit Discipline Patient Soldier Active

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

“I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body. To fuel my body, I am relentless about never eating anything that isn't of this Earth. I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab. Movement is vital. Whether it's running, cross training, hiking with the dogs, or walking the streets of New York, I am constantly active.”