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• I have learned that the ethics of the so-called markets can be different from what we learn at school. In day-to-day life you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term it always pays off to be ethical.

  Jorge Paulo Lemann

  School, Long, Different

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• I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Thinking, People, Noticing

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• They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?

  Allen Ginsberg

  War, Nicaragua, United States

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• Everybody needs a fan, and the support and the encouragement. We're human beings; that is an essential part of the equation. When that fan is not there and when you're in a situation that triggers you on a historical level, you behave impulsively. You can destroy years worth of work professionally, personally, in a moment of being triggered by that.

  Jillian Michaels

  Encouragement, Years, Support

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• The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.

  Bill Nye

  Animal, Meaning Of Life, Way

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in terms of electoral politics, but thinking in terms of organizing social movements, organizing in the work place, organizing in the neighborhood, organizing collectives that can become strong enough to eventually take over - first to become strong enough to resist what has been done to them by authority, and second, later, to become strong enough to actually take over the institutions.

  Howard Zinn

  Strong, Thinking, Government

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.

  Melody Beattie

  Issues, Challenges, Way

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

  John H. McWhorter

  Children, Honesty, Treated

  John H. McWhorter (2000). “Losing the Race: Self-sabotage in Black America”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people's mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave.

  Benjamin Graham

  Destiny, Swings, Discipline

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Wells Fargo behaves better than the average big bank. But nobody's perfect.

  Charlie Munger

  Average, Perfect, Fargo

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• A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the childs becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

  Clyde Edgerton

  Children, Adults, Definitions

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• Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

  Clark Blaise

  Commitment, Humanity, Devotion

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• We cannot constantly supervise everyone in football ...you cannot ask everyone to behave ethically.

  Sepp Blatter

  Asks

  "FIFA members reelect president Sepp Blatter amid league corruption charges". The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2015.

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• Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Powerful, Worry, Consistency

  "Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design". www.nngroup.com. January 1, 2011.

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• Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and behave. In other words, if we can learn to think about other people in a more positive and realistic way, it will be far easier to resolve conflicts and develop rewarding personal and professional relationships.

  David D. Burns

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Feeling Good Together: The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work". Book by David D. Burns, 2008.

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• Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.

  David Byrne

  Character, Unique, Cities

  "New York State of Mind" by David Byrne, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

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• It is an oftentimes dangerous world and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.

  Mike Medavoy

  Sweet, Nice, Men

  "What We Need in Our Next President" by Mike Medavoy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2007.

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• An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Crazy, Insane

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• ... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Giving, Reform

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• The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

  Tahir Shah

  Men, Way, Taste

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

  Noah Baumbach

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.

  Nancy Lublin

  Long, World, Profit

  "Our Not-for-Profit Business" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2008.

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• The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).

  David Plotz

  Book, Reading, Character

  "Biblically Speaking". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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• Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Girl, Freedom, Mean

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2104, e-artnow

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• Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Fool, He Man

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