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Behavior Quotes
"Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it."
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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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"I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior."
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"Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing."
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"Good people won't do bad to you if you hurt them. They'll just be neutral and walk away, with experience and a lesson; and you'll be left with well-wishers less one."
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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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"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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"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."
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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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"With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it; a nature like Claggart's, surcharged with energy as such natures almost invariably are, what recourse is left to it but to recoil upon itself and, like the scorpion for which the Creator alone is responsible, act out to the end the part allotted it."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort."
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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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"If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning."
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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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"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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"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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"No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy."
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"Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying."
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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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"Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable."
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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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"Any child that wants special attention is arrogant."
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"Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb."
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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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"The wounded recognized the wounded."
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"The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior."
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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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"She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life."
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"Politeness is organized indifference."
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