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«The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
(Novelist)
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automatic, cafeteria, cafeterias, comforts, depriving, elevator, Elevators, escalator, escalators, merchant, populace, self-service, self interest, specious, volition
«When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.»
Author: James Agee
(Critic, Writer)
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accelerate, accelerated, accelerates, accelerating, automatic, brisk, canter, distinct, flogged, flogging, gallop, galloped, galloping, gallops, gearshift, headlong, jog, jog trot, piston, ran, soberly, sprint, transitions, trot, trots, trotted, Trotting, walk-to
«When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.»
«Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.»
«The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.»
«Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.»
«Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
automatic, becomes, develops, frequently, habit, physical, reflex, reflexes, repeated, repetition, repetitions
«We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
acquisition, as many, automatic, decided, exception, habitual, initiative, launch, occur, rooted, securely
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