The colts story appears in The Power of Habit as part of a longer discussion of the role of belief in habit formation. |
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First of all, this telecast featured some of the best singing nuns since Whoopi Goldberg was Back in the Habit. |
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Habit is like a soft bed, easy to get into but hard to get out of! |
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Alan Bennett depicts Britten in a 2009 play The Habit of Art, set while Britten is composing Death in Venice and centred on a fictional meeting between Britten and Auden. |
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There was also a talk on Knowledge, Attitude, Skills and Habit, the Green Zone that refers to positive attitudes, and the Red Zone, which is about negativism. |
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As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. |
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At night, in the king's palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth's strange habit of sleepwalking. |
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Her detractors are in the habit of belittling her accomplishments. |
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We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. |
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Everything large or small is carried atop out of habit as much as necessity, like a delightful but defiant challenge to the laws of gravity. |
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One speaks of a babbitt habit, a babbitt era. Nothing is more true. America recognized itself in Babbitt, it demurred, but it also admired. |
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Her habit of intensive reading and study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. |
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Oldman's former wife Donya Fiorentino, as part of a child custody battle in 2001, claimed he had a drug habit and abused her. |
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Wilkinson is widely known as a teetotaler, but broke that habit after England lost to South Africa in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final. |
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Having four wives, a gambling habit and a susceptibility to confidence tricksters, he did not hold on to the money he made. |
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Durkheim identified mechanical solidarity as involving custom, habit, and repression that was necessary to maintain shared views. |
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Made me want to read MSR again, and I thought I'd finally kicked that habit. |
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For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. |
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Duns Scotus received the religious habit of the Friars Minor at Dumfries, where his uncle, Elias Duns, was guardian. |
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He was known to talk to himself, a habit that began during his childhood when he would smile in rapt conversation with invisible companions. |
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Evidence is accumulating that bolters are plants which have changed their long-day habit to that of short-day. |
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All through their chickhood, and even into maturity, chickens are prone to develop the disgusting habit of eating each other. |
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It is almost 50 years since Western dancers first tried to cure the Russians of this crashingly vulgar habit. |
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The mineral displays a well-developed habit of deltoidal icositetrahedra with dull faces. |
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From it he pinched a smidgen of snuff and packed the tobacco into his dudeen, a terrible habit for a young man to possess. |
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The Portuguese word is also a mystery. In northern Europe it is simply the earth-berry due to the plant's habit of creeping along the ground. |
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Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction. |
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Some people with low self-esteem are prone to floccinaucinihilipilification, the habit of deeming everything worthless. |
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Allotment on hire-purchase basis would also instil a habit of fore-saving and set in deflationary tendencies in the economy. |
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By Christopher Columbus's time, these tenets had become a forma mentis, a mental habit. |
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People who spend real money on real servers aren't in the habit of running shareware or garageware. |
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The Romans were also in the habit of destroying their own forts during an orderly withdrawal, in order to deny resources to an enemy. |
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This is because they have two official written standards, in addition to the habit of strongly holding on to local dialects. |
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The clipping of words is a harmless habit, used less for speed in spoken communication than for its sense of novelty or insiderness. |
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He has this irksome habit of racing up to red lights, so he has to brake heavily. |
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Expressed in biological formula, the habit of the plant is predominantly anabolic, that of the animal predominantly katabolic. |
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I didn't kirtle my skirts above my knees. I'm not wearing breeches beneath my habit, though without a doubt they'd be warmer than my stockings. |
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The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers. |
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However, supporters of the latter do not agree with that and instead think that grammar and correct habit is more important. |
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What though thy habit differ from thy kinde, Thou maiest retain thy wonted loving minde. |
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Going to a public bath at least once daily was a habit with most Roman citizens. |
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Franciscans are sometimes referred to as minorites or greyfriars because of their habit. |
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Francis adopted of the simple tunic worn by peasants as the religious habit for his order, and had others who wished to join him do the same. |
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When he was 25, he kicked his cocaine habit and went back to school. |
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But, the habit once formed, nothing is easier than to transfer it from one object to another. |
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You noticed a habit of mine once. I never make gestures. All Belters have that trait. It's because on a small mining ship you could hit something waving your arms around. |
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But at least we remained bipartisanly faithful to our national habit of never joining any European enterprise until it is too late to influence its shape. |
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The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison. |
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At that instant who should appear but our faithful Mata, driving the old caleche in which we were in the habit of making our little excursions in the neighborhood of the Port. |
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A song of this complexion, implanted by the habit of half a century in the mass of popular sentiment, can not be refused a place in the inventory of the national blessings. |
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It was not any gustfulness in those herbs which they eat, which caused them to gather them, or the force of long-established habit, but the extremity of want. |
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Such publications have a habit of starting small but growing rapidly over time, as new statutes are enacted in response to the exigencies of the moment. |
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We write journalese out of habit, sometimes from misguided training, and to sound urgent, authoritative and, well, journalistic. But it doesn't do any of that. |
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The older girls rode in a long habit. Helen's legs and mine were too young to be considered improper by Mrs. Crane. So our frillies flapped joyously. |
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