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“We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones.”

Real Worry Risk Danger Possibility Building Pride Habit Concepts Mere Species Leaving Exposed Probability Real Ones Barricades Confounding

Book:Simplexity: the simple rules of a complex world

Source: Simplexity: the simple rules of a complex world

“Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.”

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.”

Men Matter Effort Habit Mere Saint Sinner

Book:Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green

Source: Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green

“My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.”

Facts Fall Literature Wife Rocks Habit Mere My Wife Compare Dropping Goats Beastly

Book:The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.”

Persons Made Desire Steps Knowing Conditions Materials Habit Gains Mere Satisfaction Dirt Good Will Dissatisfaction Cleanliness Old Habits

Book:The Meaning of God in Human Experience

Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience

“A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.”

Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes

“Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.”

Thinking Reason Force Imagination Existence Habit Reflection Eternity Lays Mere Rooted Nothingness

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject.”

“I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.”

Made Ideas Care Emotion Behinds Taken Habit Mere Made It Suspicious

Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor

“It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.”

Mind Humans May Reading Pleasure Effort Novel Worst Effects Habit Mere Curiosity Excitement Human Mind Receiving Sensibility Habitual Exertion

Book:The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“We are mere bundles of habits.”

Habit Mere Bundles

Author:William James

“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”

Giving States Young Realizing Habit Walking Mere Plastic Heed Bundles

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go.”

Stills Whole Feelings Lasts Love Is Principles Habit Bases Good Things Mere Noble Whole Life Best Things Intensity Being In Love Comes And Goes Feelings Come And Go

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.”

Use Earth Names Sound Common Habit Mere Dust Buried Etymology Satanic Verses Naming Things

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.”

“I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.”

Ifs Matter States Action Together Individual Left Strong Can Do Community Common Numbers Acting Habit Citizens Unity Mere Conviction Common Sense Inheritance Acting Together

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.”

People World Should Children School Spirit Development Habit Lessons Built Mental Health Mere Shells Personal Love

Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

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