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I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner. ↗

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct. ↗

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. ↗

— Charles Wilson

#choice #daily #developed #grows #habit

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#descendants #destruction #diversity #folly #forgive

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ants #dominant #great #habitats #had

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#frame #habit #human #human frame #rigid

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#bag #basis #cassette #commit #constant

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. ↗

— Edward Young

#like #pile #reflection #ruin #runs

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable. ↗

— Loretta Young

#due #form #giving #habit #inestimable