“The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an ordered more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world, people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We are members.” PeopleWorldFeelsWellsMayHomeCertainKnownPositionHabitFitComfortTasteMembersCapacityTraditionDefenseExpectedCoreConsistentStereotypeWell KnownAdapted Author:Walter Lippmann
“... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.” BelieveLyingLiteratureHalfHabitDefenseHalf TruthIdeologues Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.” KnowsFirstsChildrenImportantSocialStudyHeardCollegeHabitInvolvedMetsProgramClintonDefenseFundFirst LadyArkansasSocial Programs Author:Madeleine Albright
“Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.” HabitDefenseSecretary Author:Peter R. Mansoor
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” ThinkingGivingFirstsLongReasonPainCommonHabitRaisesAppearanceDefenseCommon SenseCustomsVeganSuperficialFormidableTumult Book:Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor) Source: Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)