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Lines on habit versus fresh thinking.

This page collects quotes about the conventional way people organize their lives, including one that describes humans as embedded in far more structured social networks than casual habit suggests. Readers might also enjoy Augustine quotes.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

People
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Nov 07, 2020

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

Live
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Nov 07, 2020

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.

Quotes by Nicholas A. Christakis

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.

Quotes by Bernardo Bertolucci

Another line urges readers to think things through independently instead of defaulting to accepted terms and routines, while a third ties the idea to storytelling choices in politics. See more in Treasure or Gamblers quotes.

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