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“My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.”

Beautiful Moving Rooms Principles Five Habit Summer Garden Tables Clean Mess Virgins Trash Unbearable Summer Days Days Like This

Author:Richard Dawkins

“What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility.”

Source: Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution

“Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.”

Men Earth Moving Habit Orbit

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.”

Mind Ends Seems Would Be Lasts Moving Suffering Rooms Week Habit Devices Temporary Quarters Powerless

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.”

People Years Moving Joy Names Position Habit Sorrow Ancient Careful Extremes Sat Fifty Customs Routine Old People Furniture Rite Family Name

Book:Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels