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• If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

  Bridget Riley

  Space, Games, Play

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• A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Acting, Principles

  1906 BB. The Doctor's Dilemma, act 3.

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• When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Two, Division, Actors

  First Question & Answer Meeting, Brockwood Park, UK, September 7, 1971.

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• Bypass surgery, angioplasty,and even diagnostic angiograms are so over used that, in my opinion, it constitutes criminal behaviour by the cardiologists and surgeons involved. Well controlled scientific studies have shown bypass surgery simply doesn't work, except to relieve severe chest pain. Those who have the surgery didn't even have a trend of longevity benefit compared to those treated without it. Yet, each year hundreds of thousands cave into the obvious fear tactics used by agressive heart doctors and submit to the bypass operation

  Julian Whitaker

  Pain, Heart, Doctors

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• Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

  Alfred Adler

  Sides, Failing, Antisocial

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• Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.

  Richard Steele

  Love, Education, Checks

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• Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

  Apuleius

  Venus, Behavior, Ifs

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• Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.

  Neil Cavuto

  Financial, Pedigree, Knows

  "Eat the Rich?" by Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. July 30, 2003.

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• Men love women because they are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn. Some men prefer to love other men. Equally, some women prefer to love other women. There is a word to describe this kind of behaviour. Love.

  Guy Browning

  Men, Chocolate, Earth

  Guy Browning (2004). “Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges”, Gotham

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• I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Important, Doe

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hurt, Telling The Truth, Difficulty

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.306

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• We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Football, Games, Looks

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• Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, Practice, Long

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• There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine should be supplied with a tape bearing a random series of figures, e.g., 0 and 1 in equal quantities, and this series of figures should be used in the choices made by the machine. This would result in the behaviour of the machine not being by any means completely determined by the experiences to which it was subjected, and would have some valuable uses when one was experimenting with it.

  Alan Turing

  Art, Mean, Choices Made

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• Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Encouragement, Creativity, Self

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.

  Chris Argyris

  Errors, People, Focus

  "Teaching Smart People How to Learn". hbr.org. June 1991.

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• Controversial daily radio host. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence.

  Michael Savage

  Community, Hatred, Violence

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• It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.

  Charles Ferguson

  Creating, Culture, Patterns

  "Heist of the century: Wall Street's role in the financial crisis". www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2012.

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• There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

  Theresa May

  Crime, Social, Inevitable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

  Socrates

  Girl, Thinking, People

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• To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.

  Jacobus Arminius

  Christian, Grace, Wanton

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• Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

  Eleanor Catton

  Real, Essence, Perfect

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• I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Years, Long, Long Time

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• Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

  George Orwell

  Views, Hypocrisy, Social

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

  James A. Michener

  Plato, Thinking, People

  "The World Is My Home". Book by James A. Michener, 1991.

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