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“However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.”

Giving May Ends Impossible Habit Giving Up Projects Gains Determination

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.”

Thinking Want Impossible Genius Habit Bad Habits Always Thinking

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“The religious habits of the Americans form not only the basis of their private and public morals, but have become so thoroughly interwoven with their whole course of legislation that it would be impossible to change them without affecting the very essence of their government.”

Whole Government Would Be Christian Form Courses Religious Moral Impossible Habit Essence Bases Legislation

Book:Americans

Source: Americans

“There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.”

People Way Years Would Be Enjoy Interest Animal Impossible Groups Products Habit Eating Traditional Ethnic Groups Eating Habits

Author:Gary Player

“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.”

Made Lasts Reading Boys Break Impossible Tears Regret Pride Habit Terrible Pages Checks Dialogue Despite Made It Dirty Prose Relief Relative Shed Senior Unstoppable Pranks Cronies

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.”

Ifs Thinking Given Impossible Expression Habit Bounds Permit Entertaining Wrong Words

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.”

“Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.”

Humans Culture Impossible Habit Conscious Constant Evolve Categories Interaction

Book:The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

Source: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.”

Men Believe Government Nations Difficult Successful Wise Imagine Impossible Ought Habit Affair Servant Being Successful Energetic Ballots

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!”

Hard Break Impossible Habit Old Habits

Book:What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Source: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day