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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

—Horace Mann

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Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education; although not the most prominent education reformer of his era (see for example, Henry Barnard, Calvin Stowe, Samuel Lewis, or Catharine Beecher) he...

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We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

—Atul Gawande

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