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Behavior Quotes
"A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior."
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"The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist."
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"There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to."
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"The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories- and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures."
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"Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort."
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"Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing."
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"Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it."
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"If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community."
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"Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?"
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"Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells."
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"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective."
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"All behavior is governed by fields generating forms. Information folds into and out of the holomovement as a form of computational geometry."
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"Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong."
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"When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray."
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"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
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"Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying."
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"Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them."
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"We're wired for story. In a culture of scarcity and perfectionism, there's a surprisingly simple reason we want to own, integrate, and share our stories of struggle. We do this because we feel the most alive when we're connecting with others and being brave with our stories - it's in our biology."
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"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."
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"The violence of a lower-class man may indeed express rage, but it is aimed not at society but at the asshole who scraped his car and dissed him in front of a crowd."
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"Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them."
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"The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet."
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"It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable."
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"Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools."
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"No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy."
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"Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be."
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"When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it."
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"At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior."
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"Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful."
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"Any child that wants special attention is arrogant."
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"I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior."
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"There is 'Soul' even in other living beings. 'Lion', or 'deer', is the ego, but within them is the Soul. Therefore, if you take into consideration the type of ego of every living being and interact accordingly, your work will get done. A lion cannot be provoked but if you provoke a dog, it will run away."
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"Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed."
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"Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system."
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