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“Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.”

Feels Years May Mean Shows Feelings Action Faces Fiction Novel Behavior Our Actions New Experiences Initiate

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.”

“Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive, when it causes suffering among their neighbors, you can be sure the religion has been corrupted and reform is desperately needed.”

People May Has Beens Religion Suffering Causes Religious Needed Behavior Neighbor Violent Reform God Love Destructive Mandates

Author:Charles Kimball

“The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.”

May Quiet Behavior Rebellion Strongest Teamwork

Author:Benjamin Spock

“We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.”

Years May Problem Environment Evolution Behavior Billions

Author:W. Richard Stevens

“While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.”

May Community Behavior Obsession Plague Obsessive Lone Antisocial Moxie

Author:Robert Genn

“Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.”

Thinking May Form Emotion Behavior Negative Optimism Addiction Familiar Pleasant Destructive Invoke Negative Thinking Destructive Behavior

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.”

“The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project.”

May Two Universe Truth Is Behavior Projects Models Concepts Logic Contrast Execution Technological Centre Discourse Rationality

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.”

Kind May Government Faces Challenges Behavior Regulation Homosexual Government Regulation

Author:Anthony Kennedy

“The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”

Source: The Lost World

“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in enforcing good behavior on primitive peoples, their association is now counterproductive. Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.”

“The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.”

May Persons Helping Behavior Machines Cures Relax Relaxed

Author:Temple Grandin

“Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.”

Mind May Spirit Wise Fool Bears Equal Behavior Glory Fairs Adversity Brave Fortune Ill Storm Cards Thee Pilots Sail Gale

Author:Francis Quarles

“None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which human beings share such close physical characteristics. From them we may learn much concerning the behavior of our earliest primate prototypes, because behavior, unlike bones, teeth, or tools, does not fossilize.”

Men Humans May Doe Three Human Beings Share Modern Type Behavior Tools Bones Teeth Characteristics Biology Wildlife Apes Homo Sapiens Modern Man Primates Prototype

Book:Gorillas in the Mist

Source: Gorillas in the Mist

“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.”

People Ifs Needs May Ideas Play Moving Audience Week Behavior Perception Producers Mainstream Masterpiece Fringe Promoters

Author:David Bornstein

“It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom.”

“Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than none. Since many girls as well as boys buy the idea that sexual aggression and exploitation is normal masculine behavior, it may not even occur to them to demand to be treated as equals.”

Thinking Needs Wells May Ideas Girl Social Attention Boys Acceptance Demand Behavior Normal Treated Approval Aggression Exploitation Masculine Harassment

Author:Leora Tanenbaum

“You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s.”

Years Humans Kind May Human Beings Internet Behavior Years Ago Tragedy Greed All Kinds Combination Farms One Time Bubbles 80s Bulbs Holland Midwest Farmland

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.”

Men May Said Stills Use Body Running Time Water Saws Masters Behavior Ill Great Men Void

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that hisactions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!”

Ifs May Children Littles Doe Moments Helping Feelings Age Parent Hurt Worry Offers Behavior Normal Our Children My Children Help Me Drivers Norm Cautious Solace Deviate

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.”

Men May Has Beens Used Purpose Causes Women Moral He Man Behavior Female Sexism Categories Masculinity Misguided Harlots

Author:Margaret Truman Daniel

“I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and conduct must be exemplary. . . . I wish every mother to give her son to The Party without fearing that he may be ruined morally. . . . Storm Troop Leaders who behave unworthily in public are to be mercilessly removed.”

Giving Should May Facts Political Mother Wish Party Leader Son Demand Behavior Conscious Storm Behave Ruined Political Leaders Exemplary

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.”

May Important Force Loss Limits Behavior Perception Survival Gains Threat Profit Driving Driving Force Profit Maximization

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.”

“In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.”

Humans May Different Individual Social Simple Environment Human Nature Development Behavior Aspect Originals Dues Our Society Contrast Nevertheless Homogeneous Social Environment

Book:Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

Source: Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

“But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling may become permanent.”

Ifs Giving Heart May Feelings Might Offers Behavior Let Me Incredibles Careful Permanent Be Careful You Choose Caution

Author:Steve Goodier

“It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.”

“Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.”

Mind May Seems Accepting Behavior Scientist Toads Amorous

Book:The Alienist

Source: The Alienist

“I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.”

Wells May Children I Can Family Behavior Satisfaction Grants Disappointed Principal I May Not Be Good Behavior

Author:John Adams

“Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.”

Way May Action Christian Spirit Prayer Our Lives Judging Behavior Our Prayers Better Ways

Book:A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].

Source: A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].

“From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."”

May Race Mankind Behavior Majors Psychological Vacuums Destroyers

Book:I Am a Cat

Source: I Am a Cat

“There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.”

May Whole Problem Half Involved Morality Behavior Solve Being True Legislation Half Truth

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate.”

May Culture Moral Behavior Universal Folks Deeper Familiar Customs Categories Mechanism Superstitions Innate Taboo Vary Computation

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always be on your guard. The standard behavior of Wall Streeters is to pursue maximization of self-interest; the orientation is usually short term. This must be acknowledged, accepted, and dealt with. If you transact business with Wall Street with these caveats in mind, you can prosper. If you depend on Wall Street to help you, investment success may remain elusive.”

“God is always near His people, but their sinful behavior may cause His presence to be grievous.”

People May Causes Behavior

Author:Max Anders

“Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.”

Thinking Needs Giving Mind Looks May Feelings Results Attention Watches Behavior Conscious Aim Charity Fruit Clarity Witness Purity Noticing Inattention

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.”

May Shows Film Behavior Ethics Mediums Telling The Truth Silver Salt Adopted Embedded Photojournalists

Author:Andy Grundberg

“Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming a child? Or the police be tolerant of criminals who prey upon others? Should doctors be tolerant of disease, or public schoolteachers tolerant of any answer on an exam, no matter how wrong?”

Should May Children Matter Parent Sound Answers Virtue Disease Behavior Doctors Police Criminals Tolerance Prey Public School Exam

Author:Dave Hunt

“Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What do I want this person to do that's different from what he or she is currently doing? If we ask only this first question, punishment may seem effective because the threat or exercise of punitive force may well influence the person's behavior. However, with the second question, it becomes evident that punishment isn't likely to work: What do I want this person's reasons to be for doing what I'm asking?”

Ifs Want Firsts Wells May Persons Two Different Reason Helping Seems Asks Force Influence Exercise Behavior Asking Threat Punishment Evident Unlikely

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.”

May Mean Seems Natural Civilization Behavior Standards Conform

Author:Andy Rooney

“Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.”

“Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.”

Thinking May Littles Self Helping Social Knowing Morality Behavior Bases Discussion Arrogance Righteousness Self Righteousness Social Behavior

Author:Patricia Churchland

“Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently from an animal which knows that p - talk of knowledge is necessary once one begins to look at explaining the cognitive capacities of a species.”

Knows Believe Looks May Individual Belief Animal Behavior Capacity Species Behave Adequate Explaining Cognitive

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“Things have a behavior online, whereas in print, there is a single canonical expression for them, but online everything responds to different criteria or has inherent states to it based on that criteria. So, you have to design that in a different way. It's a completely different dynamic even though it may look similar.”

Way Looks May Different States Design Expression Behavior Different Ways Online Print Inherent Criteria

Author:Khoi Vinh

“Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.”

“If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. If, for example, honesty is a big thing for you, but you hang out with liars, there’s a conflict. When your actions conflict with your values, you’ll end up unhappy, frustrated, and despondent. In fact, psychologists tell us that nothing creates more stress than when our actions and behaviors aren’t congruent with our values.”

“Surrendered people enjoy life, relish their personal development, and value their friends. They may have an exceptionally good career and be wealthy, but they are more concerned with meaning and fulfillment. The drive to acquire money and power is a behavior that drains people of their passion and emotional connection to others. They can admit when they're wrong.”

“We never know the issues others may be facing, and it isn't up to us to judge actions and behavior.”

Knows May Action Issues Judging Behavior

Author:Stacy Keibler

“In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison for preaching from the pulpit that homosexual behavior is sinful. Given these trends, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must take a stand on doctrine and principle. This is more than a social issue - ultimately it may be a test of our most basic religious freedoms to teach what we know our Father in Heaven wants us to teach.”

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