Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one."
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Behave
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Sharon Stone
Actress
"We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do."
Francoise Sagan
Author
"I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish."
Russell Crowe
Actor
"If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you."
Ali Sina
Philosopher, Writer
"Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right."
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"How would you behave if you were the best in the world at what you do?"
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"To become what you are not, behave as you do not."
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"A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society."
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"If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right."
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"I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman."
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"We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it."
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"In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too."
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"We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies."
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"Everyone behaves badly--given the chance."
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"How you behave in one place, will help in surprising ways later."
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"There is one simplification at least. Electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in exactly in the same way."
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"A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman."
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"The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner."
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"Behave like the human being you wish all would be"
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"Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect."
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"Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not."
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"When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know"
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"Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian."
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"A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast."
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"Behave simply and hold on to purity."
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