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• Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.

  Margaret Fuller

  Art, Gardening, Doe

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• I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Writing, Research, Belief

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• For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.

  Pablo Casals

  Past, Thinking, Years

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• However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Country, Jobs

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.

  Phil Ehart

  Running, Kansas, Challenges

  "We are Rich Williams and Phil Ehart from the band Kansas - AUA". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

  Stella Benson

  Change, Flower, Godly

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

  A.J. Cronin

  Friendship, Circles, Social

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• It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Profound, Feelings, Enemy

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• But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

  Agnes Smedley

  Adventure, Color, Enemy

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.

  Ruth Rendell

  Lying, Order, Places To Go

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• I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.

  Alice Temperley

  Morning, Eggs, Oil

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• I used to do that routine about my daughter being a hippy with the dirty sneakers and dirty blue jeans, but why a beard? And you know people would actually come to me and say, 'Does your daughter really have a beard?' I'd say, 'No, I made her shave it, but I let her keep the mustache.

  Jean Carroll

  Daughter, Dirty, Blue

  "Jean Carroll, 98, Is Dead; Blended Wit and Beauty" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. January 2, 2010.

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• I always take a less-is-more approach to my routine, and use products that create a sun-kissed glow that can transition from day to night.

  Charlotte Ronson

  Night, Transition, Use

  "Charlotte Ronson, Beauty Mogul". Interview with Sarah Howard, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2011.

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• My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

  Samina Baig

  Adventure, Desire, Spirit

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• I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so easily to most people, mainly involving routine and self-care. It's hard for me to do things like cook a meal, not be in a constant apocalyptically late rush everywhere I go, to put something back when I'm finished with it. I seem to be hardwired for chaos and disorganization.

  Alissa Nutting

  Struggle, Thinking, Self

  "A Teachable Moment". Interview with John Lee, logger.believermag.com. August 6, 2013.

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• Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.

  Jackie Chan

  Pain, Long, Hospitals

  "An Interview With Jackie Chan". www.ign.com. September 25, 2012.

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• The final result of too much routine is death in life.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Finals, Too Much, Results

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• Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Grateful, Important, Guests

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.1074, Xist Publishing

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• Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Clouds, Sight

  "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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• My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

  Cate Blanchett

  Simple, Everyday Routine, Everyday

  "Cate Blanchett on Philanthropy and Beauty". Interview with Maureen Choi, www.marieclaire.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Night, Skins, Bed

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• There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Extravagance, There Is Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.

  Taylor Schilling

  Yoga, College, Two

  "Up Close with Orange is the New Black Star Taylor Schilling". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com. August 5, 2013.

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• The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary subordination and conscientious leadership, between pride in oneself and consideration for others, between rigor and compassion. Unless a balance is kept between these qualities, the Prussian spirit is in danger of degenerating into soulless routine and narrow-minded dogmatism.

  Henning von Tresckow

  Real, Mean, Pride

  "Withstanding Hitler" by Michael Balfour, (p. 130), 1988.

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• There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army of Americans who drop a stitch in their routine every four years, and give themselves up to backing first a candidate for the nomination and afterwards a nominee.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Army, Years, Giving

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