habit of mind
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhabitandmind
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habit
noun
uk/ˈhæb.ɪt/us/ˈhæb.ɪt/
something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without knowing that you are ...
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mind
noun[C]
uk/maɪnd/us/maɪnd/
the part of a person that makes it possible for him or her to think, feel emotions, and ...
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(Definition ofhabitandmindfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We need to cultivate another training and temperament, anotherhabitofmind.
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Almost relentlessly, the essay offers example after example like this to demonstrate, all but definitively, ahabitofmind.
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Second, the use of territory was more ahabitofmindthan a consciously, intended choice of the founding generation.
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It should become ahabitofmind.
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I think it is only ahabitofmind.
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That is ahabitofmindwhich is very extensive.
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Surely it is simply a question ofhabitofmind.
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From this and other such works he derived ahabitofmindwhich often characterised people and things in old-fashioned moral terms.
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In these accounts, territorial districting is understood to be not merely ahabitofmind, nor as simply necessary for the realization of deeper normative issues.
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He is not calling upon his contemporaries to return to a seventeenth-centuryhabitofmind, but assuming that it is still alive and meaningful among them.
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Instead, territory should be understood as forming ahabitofmindfor the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.
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It is a very crookedhabitofmindto take in the case of human beings.
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The country is different, and thehabitofmindis different.
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Anyone with a scientifichabitofmindwould have reasoned as follows.
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That is the result of the nationalist impulse as opposed to the internationalhabitofmind.
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But such speech is ahabitofmindthat people might consider abandoning.
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It is thathabitofmindwhich has to be exorcised.
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We lack the reflectivehabitofmind, the reflectivehabitofmindwhich likes thought before action; and our lack of it is reflected in every stage of social life.
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The last 100 years have seen a revolution in the social, economic and educationalhabitofmind, action and thought.
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Independence is ahabitofmind, and the culture fosters independence and enables individual members to eschew conflicts of interest.
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The truth is that business interests have got into thehabitofmindof the apothecary's leech.
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The freezing effect of rent control has engendered thehabitofmindthat people must say where they are.
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Such ahabitofmindis particularly characteristic of a very old established industry such as the baking industry.
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Prosecuting solicitors' have been trained over the years in ahabitofmindwhich is completely different from what we want from public prosecutors.
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In fact the scandal of the short hours worked to-day is largely to blame for thehabitofmind, and it has spread downwards.
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