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“I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.”

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant

“You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.”

Pieces Habit Doctors Witch Professors Superstitions Skepticism Witch Doctors

Book:Anthills of the Savannah

Source: Anthills of the Savannah

“Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.”

May Done Use Lasts Evil Process Pleasure Hell Pieces Habit Eternal Stones Woods This Life Satan Construction Centre Constructs Builder Arches Keystones Firewood

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

“You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.”

Ifs World Needs Writing Reading Pay Attention Pieces Habit News Wide Pay Attention Cake Reading Habits

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.”

Earth Pieces Theory Habit Silly Flying Gravitation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)