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Behavior Quotes
"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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"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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"Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools."
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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 romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too."
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"I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior."
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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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"Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed."
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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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"If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies."
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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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"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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"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying."
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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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"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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"Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful."
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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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"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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"I made a tactical error tonight with Wyatt." She paused "Horizontally." Sara laughed. "Again?"
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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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"Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do."
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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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"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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"He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat."
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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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"The best evidence of unsophisticated ideas is the behavior that follows."
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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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"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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"The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it."
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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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"Moon is a shining ball, from the window on my wall.Moon is blemish - laden, from the terrace of my mansion.Moon is a cold flame, from the porthole of my airplane.Yet I have heard, Moon is muse to philosophy brothers, Moon is nurse to romantic lovers.How can it be so various?Are we not the same?Or did the Moon really change?"
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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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