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• Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

  Donald Fehr

  People, Perfection, Faults

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• In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.

  Woody Allen

  Age, Trying, Sixteen

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Way, Behavior

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.76, Open Road Media

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• A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Children, Tables, Speak

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Whole Duty of Children" l. 1 (1885)

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• The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Mind, Battle

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1958). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: The case of Schreber, papers on technique and other works”

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• When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.

  Steven Moffat

  Believe, Writing, Men

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• When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Men, Doubt, World

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• To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.

  Meister Eckhart

  Faith, Gone Away, Giving

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  Orson Scott Card

  Community, Fiction, Benefits

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• One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.

  Edward de Bono

  Memories, Book, Thinking

  Edward De Bono (2010). “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Literature, Beast

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• Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Selfish, Lying, Community

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• Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Men, Wonderful, Behavior

  Salvador de Madariaga (1974). “Morning without noon: memoirs”

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• Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Long, Matter, Painful

  Phyllis Bottome (1921). “The Crystal Heart”

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• The way we behave toward people indicates what we really believe about God.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Believe, People, Way

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Be Mature (James): Growing Up in Christ”, p.71, David C Cook

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• Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

  Han Suyin

  Believe, Race, Dominance

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• Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?

  Robert Nozick

  Philosophy, Nice, Believe

  Robert Nozick (1981). “Philosophical Explanations”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

  Jeremy Irons

  Children, Taken, Acting

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• When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

  Hugh Prather

  Happiness, Home, Simple

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• One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Good Night, Sports

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• We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

  Warren Buffett

  Children, Believe, Long

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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• The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, Law, Negative

  Hermann von Helmholtz (1971). “Selected writings of Hermann von Helmholtz”, Wesleyan Univ Pr

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• Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Ties, Atoms

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• What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.

  Claud Cockburn

  Men, Position Of Power, People

  Claud Cockburn (1961). “View from the West: Being the Third Volume of Autobiography”

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• The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

  Frank Auerbach

  Artist, Desperate Situations, Unity

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