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“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.”

People World Feels Wells May Home Certain Known Position Habit Fit Comfort Taste Members Capacity Tradition Defense Expected Core Consistent Stereotype Well Known Adapted

Author:Walter Lippmann

“Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.”

Stories Literature Principles Sun Habit Conscious Concepts Tradition Structure Mythology Traditional Mature Metaphoric Sun God

Author:Northrop Frye

“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).”

Mean Community Special Habit Mass Tradition Expertise Disrespect Wikipedia Elitist

Author:Larry Sanger

“In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is a nearly inescapable habit of mind, for despite all the customary pretense that 'man' and 'humanity' are terms which apply equally to both sexes, the fact is hardly obscured that in practice, general application favors the male far more often than the female as referent, or even sole referent, for such designations.”

“I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.”

Habit Tradition Evolve Repeats Adore Interrupted

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“I try not to think of myself as a woman filmmaker. I don't look for women influences. I have noticed in the past few years that there is a certain ceiling that a woman filmmaker can reach. I don't believe that it's sexism per se, but there are certain expectations in the industry about what films should be, how they should be made, what stories they should tell, and it's a habit, it's a tradition.”

Thinking Should Trying Believe Looks Made Stories Film Certain Influence Industry Habit Expectations Tradition Don't Believe Filmmaker Sexism Ceilings

Author:Signe Baumane

“The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next”

People Mind Next Difficult Generations Habit Essentials Tradition Technique Experiments Characteristics Habits Of Mind

Book:The Scientific Outlook

Source: The Scientific Outlook

“I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ.”

People Spiritual Christ Honest Habit Discipline Tradition Difficulty Maintaining Pilgrimage Spiritual Disciplines Spiritual Direction

Book:Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church - Revised Edition

Source: Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church - Revised Edition

“Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.”

Life Wisdom Wise Habit Tradition Customs Good Habits

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.”

“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.”

Firsts Knowing Habit Tradition Cruelty Customs Enchantment

Book:In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah

Source: In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”

People Inspirational Needs Funny Habit Tradition Reform Sarcastic Customs Prohibition Bad Habits Good Habits Drug Prohibition Daily Habits

Author:Mark Twain

“Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.”

Sometimes Facts Habit Tradition Kitchen Culinary Charcoal

Author:Alton Brown

“Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.”

Sometimes Turns Habit Comfortable Tradition Excuse Radical Unjust Unworthy Crank

Book:Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy