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Behavior Quotes
"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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"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."
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"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool."
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"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
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"Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity."
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"The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior."
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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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"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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"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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"I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it."
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"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying."
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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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"Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool."
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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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"Some man would come to her room. Maybe she would hesitate, and he'd grab her, pin her to the mattress, force her to cooperate."
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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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"To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely."
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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 wounded recognized the wounded."
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"Kindness is the supreme intelligence."
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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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"For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh."
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"Politeness is organized indifference."
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"The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it."
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"I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle."
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"All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments."
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"You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did."
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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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"Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do."
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"Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks,' I said to Ziggy.'I'll try,' Ziggy said, 'but it's a hard habit to break."
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"When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior."
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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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"The best evidence of unsophisticated ideas is the behavior that follows."
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"If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning."
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