"A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness."
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"What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them."
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"The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want."
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"Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us."
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"Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me."
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"Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out."
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"Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds."
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"The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists."
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"Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave."
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"I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite."
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"Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits."
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"There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of."
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"if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?"
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"WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior."
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"Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself."
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"I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all."
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"Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive."
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"The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves."
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"Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it."
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"When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it."
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