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• We are animals and we are made in this way and this is how we behave. I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.

  T.C. Boyle

  Animal, Impact, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Women in particular seem to say things like, "I'm sure I'd be the one screaming and not moving in an emergency." I don't think that's the case. People who've been through really horrible life-or-death situations say that nobody behaves the way they would have expected. But that said, there are predictors.

  Amanda Ripley

  Moving, Thinking, People

  "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

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• The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other way in the partisan sense, is, on the face of it, a silly charge. It's the same Census Bureau that's considered to be incompetent by some people, and then some of the same people are saying that this incompetent agency is so clever and so Machiavellian that it can design a census for partisan reasons.

  Kenneth Prewitt

  Clever, Silly, Agency

  "Census, Uncensored". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2009.

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• I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.

  Warren Austin

  Christian, Jew, Knows

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• I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Expression, Challenges, Middle East

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.

  Gwyn Morgan

  People, Culture, Definitions

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• As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine of processed food ingredients, with its high-speed, blunt assault on our brains, then fat is the opiate, a smooth operator whose effects are less obvious but no less powerful.

  Michael Moss

  Powerful, Drawing, Brain

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• People do notice you but they behave normally if you behave normal.

  Lara Dutta

  People, Normal, Ifs

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• The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that youll have little in the future.

  Sendhil Mullainathan

  People, Scarcity, Littles

  "Being poor changes your thinking about everything". Interview with Harold Pollack, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind.

  Arika Okrent

  Jobs, Mind, Trying

  Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.5, Spiegel & Grau

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• I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.

  Joanna Lumley

  Order, Lioness, Lions

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• At the core of One Spirit Medicine is the idea that how we perceive the world 'out there' is a projection of internal maps that shape our beliefs and guide how we think, feel and behave. These maps are the unconscious programs that drive our experience of life and the state of our health. The key to optimum health is to upgrade these unconscious maps and limiting beliefs that have been driving us to a toxic lifestyle and relationships.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Thinking, Ideas, Medicine

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• The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.

  George E. P. Box

  Way, Complex Systems, Complexes

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• All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Earth, Way, Living On

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• Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Shine On, Ideas, People

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• It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Routine, Conformity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.106, Delphi Classics

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• On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ravens

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• The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

  Philip Roth

  Doe, Gains, Mask

  Philip Roth (1985). “Reading myself and others”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

  Mark Twain

  Wells, Maximum

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• In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Cutting, Tables, Sake

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• Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Greatness, People

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.3188, Madison & Adams Press

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• Nature is located mainly in national parks, which are vast tracts of wilderness that have been set aside by the United States government so citizens will always have someplace to go where they can be attacked by bears. And we're not talking about ordinary civilian bears, either: We're talking about federal bears, which can behave however they want to because they are protected by the same union as postal clerks.

  Dave Barry

  Talking, Government, Clerks

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.156, Ballantine Books

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• The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.

  Jose Mujica

  Struggle, Different, Would Be

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the consequences of their behaviour before acting, and to treasure their morals. As a result they are less prone to lie, cheat or behave immorally when they conduct a business deal or spot an opportunity to make money, studies suggest. They are also likely to make better employees because people who think less about the future results of their actions are more likely to be late, to steal or to be rude to clients.

  David D. Burns

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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