"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."
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"Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions."
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"Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent."
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"You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior."
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"Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries."
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"We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us."
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"Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost."
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"Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous."
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"All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it."
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"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."
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"Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it."
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"Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective."
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"Public behavior is merely private character writ large."
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"A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them."
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"When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed."
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"In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it"
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"The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all."
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"Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy."
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"By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning; you are the observer of your conditioning."
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"I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior."
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