Word: habitation
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...Minh City (formerly Saigon) after a 21-year separation prolonged by the Vietnam War. Gaunt and pale, the brother displayed symptoms that were all too familiar to Dan. The brother, like their father, was addicted to opium. "All around me," says Dan, "there were drug addicts." The habit eventually led to his father's death in 1976 and his brother's the following year...
Covey's seven habits were initially intended for skittish business folk willing to try something, anything, to goose the bottom line. They pay large sums for his seminars and videotapes, in which he advises them, for example, to figure out what they want to do before they do it ("Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind") and to do the important things before the unimportant things ("Habit 3: Put first things first"). America's corporate managers are notoriously gullible, of course, and the money they spend on a self-designated "leadership authority" like Covey is usually not their...
...doesn't rely on it that often. Well, infrequently-in moments of weakness. OK, it's sort of a habit. Maybe even an addiction...
...when Mark Twain said, "Golf is a good walk spoiled," he forgot to mention one thing. Golf is addictive. Its like a narcotic or a bad gambling habit...
...spent her life looking up to everyone else--and said only two words. Later I would realize that they were the message of her mission. "Luff Gott," she said. Love God. She pressed into my hand a poem she had written, as she glided away in a swoosh of habit...