However, it is still a personal work habit or learned behavior that the employee has to take to heart.

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The show and the ads will both make a habit of celebrating personal responsibility, says Liberty Mutual marketing chief Stephen G.

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For several years, I have made a habit of asking personal-injury trial lawyers about their actual experience with perjury or fraudulent documents in litigation.

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He criticised Mr Fox's vulgarity, and his habit of resorting to personal attacks.

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All of that means Facebook users are already in the habit of sharing their personal details and activities with other users on the site by default, and only opting out of the sharing functions for certain actions they want to keep private, says David McClure, an adviser to start-ups and guest lecturer at Stanford who teaches a class on Facebook.

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Get in the habit of asking your customers to please send a personal note with a strong referral to anyone they feel would benefit from hearing the speech you just delivered for them.

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But ever since he became Labour's leader in 1994, Mr Blair and his acolytes have taken that habit to new extremes, applying it to policy ambitions and personal traits alike.

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