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“Not so much anymore but some years ago in my homeland there was a habit, something called 'casamiento de apuro,' a marriage in haste because the baby is coming and to cover socially the honor of the family. There, they weren't free and it happened many times this marriage is null. As a bishop I forbade my priests to do this.”

Years Happened Baby Habit Honor Years Ago Priests Homeland Haste Bishops Null

Author:Pope Francis

“Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.”

People Ifs Knows Years Mean Long Ends Self Country Enough Running Able Realizing Decision Know How Taken Generations Goes On Habit Hundred Forgotten Initiative Away From You

Author:Chinua Achebe

“The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.”

Knows Years I Can Poor Numbers Habit Ordinary Years Ago Average Fifty Capability Work Habits

Author:Ben Stein

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”

“For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.”

“I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Feels Years Made Night Wonder Huge Habit Drinking Stores Uncomfortable Quantity Liquor Paranoid Hangover Clerks Liquor Stores

Author:Charles Bukowski

“A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.”

Source: Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel

“Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.”

Knows Should Years Habit Cocaine

Author:Tallulah Bankhead

“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”

“It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.”

People Years Remember Form Young Dies Difficult Habit

Book:Memento Mori

Source: Memento Mori

“And as I recall, you told me to shut up. (Acheron) I’m an asshole. I admit it. I’ve been going to weekly Assholes Anonymous meetings, but it takes a long time to undo a few thousand years of habit. And to think you have even more years to undo than me. (Zarek)”

Thinking Years Long Habit Thousand Long Time Meetings Recalls Shut Up Thousand Years

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Wells Reason Past Causes Air Youth Habit Speed Preserves Scenery Retard Years Of Life New Habits Change Of Scenery

Author:Thomas Mann