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“Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.”

People Should House Poor Streets Return Habit Towns Court Crowds Contrary Plague Cleanliness Our Town

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population

“Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does it mean that you must unconditionally avoid the role of consumer. Rather, simplicity merely requires a bit of personal sacrifice: an adjustment of your habits and routines within consumer society itself.”

Mean Doe Bits Roles Sacrifice Habit Simplicity Seeking Contrary Consumers Revolutionary Stereotype Monk Adjustment Subsistence Personal Sacrifice

Author:Rolf Potts

“Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.”

Men Birth Habit Vices Contrary Savages Disposition

Author:Plutarch

“I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.”

Ifs Men Running Difficult Talking He Man Habit Oneself Determine Vices Contrary Length Propriety

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.”

Men Way Mind Reason Lying Clear Habit Perception Weak Competition Contrary Odds Bent Inclination

Author:George Berkeley

“The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.”

People Firsts Country Used Rich Habit Mass Transformation Contrary Meat Prosperous Rich Countries

Author:Susan George

“Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.”

Giving Trying May Important Action Suffering Existence Habit Important Things Notion Contrary Fearful Uncertain Observers Trifles Untrue

Author:Carl Maria von Weber

“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

Men Children Long Has Beens Given Chance Education Teaching Middle Ignorance Development Habit Adults Contrary Ignorant Conventions Continuing Arrested Middle Aged Cocoons

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts.”

Giving Persons Jesus Names Christ Opinion Practice Habit Jesus Christ Destruction Credit Contrary Doctrine Beast Wicked Worthless Unworthy Wild Beasts Guile

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.”

Mean Different Ends Self Matter Artist Passion Our Lives Pride Habit Appearance Contrary Practicals Impression Operations Engaged Labour Communion Terminology

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained

“Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.”

Way Faces Turns Pay Attention Television Listening Habit Computer Contrary Fixed Routine Outlets Respectful Viewpoints Turn Off Down Time

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.”

Numbers Particular Broken Habit Increase Contrary Repetition

Author:Mortimer Adler

“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”

People Believe Has Beens Habit Contrary Tolerance Savages

Book:Essays

Source: Essays