"Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past."
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"Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change."
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"Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference."
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"You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary."
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"Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior."
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"It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time."
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"All human behavior is either an act of love or a cry for love."
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"Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results."
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"It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it."
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"It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare."
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"Still people are dangerous."
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"It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface."
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"The basis of all good human behavior is kindness."
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"Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious."
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"Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior."
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"Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure."
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"The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain."
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"We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so."
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"Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior."
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"Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better."
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