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Behavior Quotes
"No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight."
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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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"Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words."
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"Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks."
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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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"I made a tactical error tonight with Wyatt." She paused "Horizontally." Sara laughed. "Again?"
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"Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set."
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"You have a habit of having an 'underhand', and that is why you get a boss. Otherwise, no one is your boss and no one is your underhand; such is the world."
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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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"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."
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"If... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity."
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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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"Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse."
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"Look, tiny - i'm trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i'm always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don't know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always."
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"Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons."
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"To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule."
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"Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites."
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"My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them."
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"People get absorbed in chitchats with whomever they meet. They simply have to meet someone. Infinite energies are wasted in such chitchatting."
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"I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older."
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"Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter."
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"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
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"Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface."
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"We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.' We think we are most ourselves when we are most passionate, whereas it is then we are most passive, caught in some ancestral torrent of impulse or feeling, and swept on to a precipitate reaction which meets only part of the situation because without thought only part of a situation can be perceived."
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"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."
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"There were, however, a few exceptions.One was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasantly drunk but had been sensible enough to pass out before any violent action proved necessary. He had been deposited, not very gently, on the lawn, where it was hoped that a hyena would give him a rude awakening. For all practical purposes he could, therefore, be regarded as absent."
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"It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation, he had no resistance to it at all."
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"The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations."
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"Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster."
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"The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already."
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"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."
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"What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen."
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"Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things."
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"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."
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"One is said to be enlightened with the Right Knowledge when his conduct is appropriate in any situation."
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"These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization."
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"Don't be intimidated and at the same time don't intimidate."
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