Hunter S. Thompson

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

American Journalist

Eric Garcetti

I have to spend my time worrying about poor families at the expense of helping businesses, or vice versa. To me, I really see that's the bridge I need to build.

Algerian Politician

Benjamin Franklin

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

American Politician

Tori Amos

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

American Musician

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

English Writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

German Writer

Erin Heatherton

Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.

American Model

Joseph Joubert

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

French Writer

Antoine Rivarol

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

French Journalist

M. Scott Peck

American Psychologist

The word 'vice' implies a strong negative judgment about someone's behavior or habit.

Negative Connotation

'Vice' typically refers to habits that can be addictive or hard to break.

Often Addictive

Using 'vice' in a sentence often carries a moral undertone of disapproval.

Moral Undertone

'Vice' in roles like Vice President suggests a clear rank or order within a group.

Hierarchy Implied

Don't confuse organizational 'vice' with bad habits; here, it has no negative meaning.

Not a Vice

'Vice' for organizational roles suggests a formal setting like corporations or governments.

Formal Context

In technical contexts, 'vice' is a physical tool and has no negative implication.

Technical Usage

'Vice' as a tool provides stability and precision for working on objects.

Precision Aid

When used as a preposition, 'vice' indicates that one thing is replacing another.

Substitution Focus

As a preposition, 'vice' is formal and more commonly found in written English.

Formal Substitution

 And, as researchers have demonstrated, if you support capital punishment and the study shows that it's not effective, then you're highly motivated to find all the reasons why the study was poorly designed. But if it shows that capital punishment works, it's a good study. And vice if you don't support capital punishment, same thing.

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 why do we need an explanation? For these monks, blindly seeking answers was a vice to overcome, and learning to accept the mysteries of existence was the true path to enlightenment. But fighting the urge to explain the unexplainable can be difficult. So to help practice living with these mysteries,

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 with ties broken by the vice president. With the Senate's consent, the president issues a written appointment, allowing the nominee to complete the final steps to take the constitutional and judicial oaths. In doing so, they solemnly swear to administer justice without respect to persons

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 here's how the desert sand meets the sea and vice versa the foam is the result of these strong offshore winds that whip the biomass of phytoplankton into a froth consider it something like marine egg whites like other major fisheries the Benguela current marine life has

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 like a particle. But when you repeat the experiment many times, all the individual electrons trace out a pattern of stripes, characteristic of wave behavior. The idea that particles behave like waves, and vice versa, is one of the strangest and most powerful in physics.

Particles and waves: The...

 fineman famously said that this is experiment in embodies the central mystery of quantum mechanics once you know that particles behave like waves and vice versa everything else falls into place like letters filling in a crossword grid I tell this story not

Demystifying quantum...

 Why do blood types matter? For blood transfusions, finding the correct one is a matter of life and death. If someone with type A blood is given type B blood, or vice versa, their antibodies will reject the foreign antigens and attack them,

Why do blood types...

 from literary criticism to sports commentary. Uncertainty is often explained as a result of measurement, that the act of measuring an object's position changes its speed, or vice versa. The real origin is much deeper and more amazing.

What is the Heisenberg...

 I mean, I was like -- So, the idea that we create this sense of complacency when all we do is talk about somebody else's responsibility as though it's our own, and vice versa. Anyhow, a whole lot of things.

Learning from dirty jobs...

 the front ones are pushed up by the movement and then vice versa one by one the statues were coming to life

Vice

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Often Addictive

Moral Undertone

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