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“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

“Our history of the last 20 years seems to have been one long series of retreats and humiliations, from Suez to Aden, from Cyprus to Rhodesia,’ he lamented, in a mournful ode to the symbols of Britain’s faded power.”
― Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

“To express oneself distinctly carries the assumption that one’s partner knows nothing, so clear expression can be considered impolite. (Morimoto, 1988, p. 22)”
― Roger J. Davies, The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture