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“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”

“There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.”

“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

“We have to understand there are two parts of our mind, there's the conscious and the subconscious. It's the subconscious that controls our behavior. It's the conscious mind where the intellect is resident. So the conscious mind is understanding information, but it's not internalizing it.”

Mind Two Understanding Information Behavior Conscious Intellect Subconscious Residents Conscious Mind Internalizing

Author:Bob Proctor

“Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.”

Men Two Whole Earth Walks Deals Behavior Normal Method Patterns Legs Biology Explaining Mammals History Of Life

Author:Elaine Morgan

“Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.”

Firsts Two Class Mankind Behavior Divides Handful Benefactors

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)”

People Years Two Stage Objects Behavior Urges Two Years Anarchy Compulsion Primal Two Year Olds Tics Tourettes

Book:Vintage Sacks

Source: Vintage Sacks

“... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases.”

Men Two Ideas Cases Behavior Wide Range Disposition Sensory Utterance Stimulation Intentionality

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.”

Thinking Mind Littles Two Ideas Reality Lying Process Attitude Stage Taught Degrees Behavior Surface Accepted Allowing Transformed Furniture

Author:Charles Stanley

“Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexual freedom, there's still no word in the language that doesn't reek with pejorative connotation to describe a woman who has sex freely. Since language frames thought and sets its limits, this is not a trivial matter. For without a word that describes without condemning, it's hard to think about it neutrally as well. When we say the words 'promiscuous woman,' therefore, it's a statement about her character, not just her sexual behavior.”

Thinking Wells Stills Two Matter Hard Character Language Sex Women Interesting Half Revolution Limits Behavior Decades Statements Condemning Connotation Promiscuous Sexual Revolution

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do, and the law says you can impose capital punishment, so you impose it. You can [also] be a Catholic who says we can't kill, we can't kill babies and we can't kill adults. If you let a decision be driven by your personal views, then you are not doing what a judge needs to do, which is enforce the laws of the society that you are in. But you can control your own behavior, and that is the choice that the church and God gives us - what kind of people are we going to be.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Giving Kind Two Law Choices Church Decision Views Judging Baby Behavior Adults Catholic Driven Punishment Capital Punishment Personal Views

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.”

Humans Two Action Motivation Company Behavior Increase Psychological Ease Performing Human Behavior Likelihood Pulleys

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.”

“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

“You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party.”

People Two Views Party Trump Republican Behavior Republican Party Extremist Cruz

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.”

“Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.”

Two Powerful Silence Behavior Outcomes Sustaining Dominating Circumspection

Author:Judith Orloff

“Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.”

Want Persons Doe Two Enemy Gratitude Behavior Deeds Witness Acknowledge Despise Good Deeds Unwilling Ungrateful Benefactors Thankless Ungrateful Person

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“No one can say that this was the decisive and [Russians hacking ] was what elected [Donald] Trump, but clearly his behavior during the campaign in terms of what he said in the week or two before the election was unacceptable.”

Said Two Term Week Trump Behavior Election Campaigns Hacking

Author:John Lewis

“Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.”

Two Terrible Behavior Good Behavior

Author:David Brooks

“Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices.”

Two Law Choices Individual Principles Roles Teach Limits Behavior Acceptable Individual Choice

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.”

People Way Humans Two Different Ends Possibility Behavior Raised Fascinated Human Behavior Different Place

Author:Ed Gass-Donnelly

“If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let them sit and watch TV all day. That's just the worst thing you can do. You need to have a teacher working with that child, working on teaching language, working on social interaction, working on getting them interested in different things, and keeping their brain connected to the world.”

“The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.”

“There's a real connection between the history of print in Europe and nationalism, and how those two things could be formed. I think they may both now be ending, for good and bad, but I think mainly for good. Either globalism was supposed to make people all realize this is one big business going on and we should know what's going on everywhere, or it makes people say, "I don't want to become part of this thing. I want to be incredibly different from you and I want to uphold my local behavior." Dress a certain way.”

“Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.”

People Years Humans Long Has Beens Two Talking Changed Activity Behavior Filled Ancient Each Day Amazed Human Behavior Homo Sapiens Downtown Physical Things Tucson

Author:Andrew Weil

“It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.”

Trying Littles Two Hard Shows Together Water Animal Pay Attention Teach Failing Behavior Cat Dolphins

Author:Frans de Waal

“Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.”

People Way Should Two Process Powerful Behavior Sacred Forgiving Instance Two Ways

Author:Sidney Poitier

“Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.”

“One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.”

Should Years Two Behavior Shots Statesmen Scoundrels Good Behavior

Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could.”

Two Self Feelings Body Wanted Three Energy Wall Behavior Hatred Sick Piano Destructive Appropriate Mask Nurse Self Control Appropriate Behavior

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy... or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten”

Knows Should Humans Wells Said Two Today Left Waiting Hours Known Know How Behavior Messages Standards Should Have Machines Checks Gates Coming Back Clay Waiting For You Normalcy

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“Angelina, Alicia, and Katie suddenly giggled. "What?" said Wood, frowning at this lighthearted behavior. "He's that tall, good-looking one, isn't he?" said Angelina. "Strong and silent," said Katie, and they started to giggle again. "He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together," said Fred impatiently.”

Said Two Together Strong Behavior Silent Woods Strings Tall Thick Looking Good Katie Giggle Frowning

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.”

Way Humans Two Behavior Miracle Workers Two Things Human Behavior Miracle Worker

Author:Marianne Williamson

“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.”

“Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful, but what made it even worse was the fact that neither warrior seemed to realize the effect he had on others.”

Made Stills Two Facts Realizing Effects Behavior Innocent Made It Warrior Tactics Identical Thorns Thistles

Book:The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale—bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion—all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world’s most seriously corrupt kings.”

World Two Trouble Worst Serious Kings Band Behavior Scales Organized Rebellion Stopping Coercion Sabotage Bribery Graceling

Book:Graceling

Source: Graceling

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