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Behavior Quotes
"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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"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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"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 wounded recognized the wounded."
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"No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight."
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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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"Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals."
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"I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe."
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"I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never die in the thousands because a god wished it. Those kinds of numbers require material gains, like power, wealth, territory."
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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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"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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"If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies."
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"There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to."
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"Any child that wants special attention is arrogant."
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"The best evidence of unsophisticated ideas is the behavior that follows."
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"As for sex, the last of the great words, it was just a cocktail term for an excitement that bucked you up for a while, then left you more raggy than ever."
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"Goodness, I was already a dork most of the times. I didn't need to be a drunk or high dork."
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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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"For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh."
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"Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications."
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"Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means."
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"As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment."
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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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"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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"I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too."
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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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"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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"Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks."
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