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Behavior Quotes
"The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age."
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"All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem."
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"Don't get so lost in their words. Pay attention to their actions."
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"That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course, it's just fun to think about.'And then, as though in trances, the people would really do it-have slaves fight each other to the death in the Colosseum, or burn people to death in the public square for holding opinions which were locally unpopular, or build factories whose only purpose was to kill people in indistrial quantities, or to blow up whole cities, and on and on."
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"I thought the worst of everyone."
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"Pay attention. How a person handles poor cell service, traffic, and spotty wifi is a good indicator of how they'll behave during relationship challenges."
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"Beauty is a behavior. As is ugliness."
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"Knock the door or ring the bell but don't ever push it! Be gentle!"
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"I'm not ill like that, she groaned. He sat on her bed, peeling back the blanket. A servant entered, frowning at the mess on the floor, and shouted for help."Then it what way?"I,uh... Her face was so hot she thought it would melt onto the floor. Oh you idiot. "My monthly cycles finally came back!His face suddenly matched hers and he stepped away, dragging his hand through his short hair. "I-if...Then I'll take my leave, he stammered, and bowed. Celaena raised an eyebrow, and then, despite herself, smiled as he left the room as quick as his feet could go without running, tripping slightly in the doorway as he staggered into the rooms beyond."
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"I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me."
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"There are some people whose turbulent waves of behaviors will drown you no matter how well you think you can swim."
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"By your behavior you send signals on how people should treat you."
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"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."
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"There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there."
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"So unsirious work... I behave nice because I want people to behave in the same way with me."
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"The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove."
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"Funishment - not truly discipline."
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"If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases."
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"Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks."
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"It is unimpressive to not hold a door open for the next person coming through. After a satisfying workout at my gym, I was walking behind a man who was exiting at the same time. He was only about two feet in front of me. As he walked through the door, he let it close behind him, almost hitting me in the face. Was he being intentionally rude? Was he preoccupied and focused on other things? No matter whether an offender is being a jerk intentionally, or is simply oblivious to how his behavior is affecting others, rude behavior instantly makes a negative impression. Be aware!"
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"Do everything as in the eye of another."
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"Criminal' pompousness will not do, 'civil' pompousness is acceptable."
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"Rather than the one who gets angry, the world is more afraid of the one who does not get angry. Why? When anger ceases, grandeur of authority (pratap) arises. Such is the law of nature. Otherwise there would never be any protection for those who don't get angry. Anger provides protection during one's conduct in ignorance of the self."
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"Most if not all sexually active people do not really love having sex, they merely love experiencing an orgasm every now and then."
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"Humans are very strange. When you need a hug, they throw you away, when you need condolence , they insult you, and when you need love, they betray you."
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"By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy."
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"What is appropriate in one setting may be entirely inappropriate in another. How you behave at a football game is different than how you behave at your sister's wedding. How you interact with your closest friends will be different than how you engage with your boss."
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"No mean person is mean all the time. The whole point of being mean is to fluctuate so that you can hold out the hope for someone. So someone will hold out the hope that they're gonna catch you on the sunny side or that you're gonna be nice this time. The tyranny is inconsistency. Somebody thats consistently mean is something that is pretty easy to sort out. The reality is that the meanest people can be wonderful sometimes. That's the whole point of meanness because otherwise it's too obvious. It's the niceness that gets you trapped in the dysfunction. That is the problem and so the fact that you have this belief that there is hope in the relationship is foundational to the dysfunction."
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"Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves."
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"A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form."
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"And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself."
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"Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of."
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