“Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated).” MeanCommunitySpecialHabitMassTraditionExpertiseDisrespectWikipediaElitist Author:Larry Sanger
“The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in producing] a long habit of submission... [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.” ShouldLongAmericaClassSpecialHabitEnglandInstitutionsSlaveryBoundariesSubmissionAristocratic Author:John Bright
“It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that people eat very small amounts of it. That it's a special thing, rather than reach for it because it's cheap or reach for it because it's convenient, that it becomes something festive or something celebratory, once a week, and that could actually be achieved on small farms if we really changed our habits.” PeopleIfsThinkingCasesWeekSpecialChangedAmountHabitOne DayMeatFarmsConvenientSmall AmountsFestiveSpecial Things Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“If one develops good habits and routines, it is possible to be a responsible educator most of the time; and to marshal the special energies and reflection for those times, when the correct course of action is not clear, or when one is weighing one wrong against another wrong.” IfsActionCoursesEnergyClearSpecialHabitReflectionResponsibleEducatorWeighingGood Habits Author:Howard Gardner
“There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.” PassionHalfAirSpecialHabitFitHorseCalmPursuitResistanceVanityMannersIndifferenceBreaking DownGratificationHeartedBrutalityHalf HeartedSuaveLoose Women Book:Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life Source: Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life