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“You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.”

“The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.”

Needs Feels Firsts Objects Greatness Habit Higher Circumstances Comfort Activity Perception Lows Luxury Indifference Palaces Banquets

Book:Society and solitude

Source: Society and solitude

“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.”

Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

“The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.”

People Persons Action Moving Loses Wife Habit Quiet Lows Calm Noise Manners Traits Accustomed Spoons Affront

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.”

Feels Stills Three Week Habit Lows Balls Teenager Estates Three Times Remorse Insulting Insidious Auctions Heirlooms

Author:Dennis Miller

“Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.”

World Strange Habit Lows Trade Journalism Heroin Drunkards Misfits

Book:Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

“Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.”

Thinking Way Humans Body Felt Realizing Memories One Thing Habit Achievement Lows Killing Sorry Pity Manage Imperfect Way To Live One Thing At A Time I'm So Sorry

Author:Orson Scott Card