"Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface."
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"The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore."
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"When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things."
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"You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors."
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"I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior."
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"I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior must be guided by a higher principle. Practicality has its place but only within a framework of values, which all men of good will share."
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"It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life."
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"Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost."
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"As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons."
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"How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship"
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"Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated."
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"Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior."
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"Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks."
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"Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit."
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"Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words."
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"Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to do it again." And we cashier them. It would be evil not to, because terrible behavior spreads."
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"Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior."
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"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."
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"The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor."
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"You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure."
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