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“Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.”

Circumstances Behave Gentleman Unreal

Book:The Decline of the Gentleman

Source: The Decline of the Gentleman

“You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance”

Humans Wisdom Given Human Beings Circumstances Expected Behave Australia Never Trust

Book:My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn

Source: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn

“Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.”

Circumstances Behave Day To Day Day Life Day To Day Life

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"”

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Author:Edward Lampert

“When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know”

Knows Circumstances Behave

Author:Bertrand Russell

“In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into a state of dynamic disequilibrium and behave quite differently from what would be considered normal by the theory of efficient markets. Such boom/bust sequences do not arise very often, but when they do, they can be very disruptive, exactly because they affect the fundamentals of the economy.”

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Author:George Soros

“We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our self image to be. And we do not deviate from that pattern. The image you hold of yourself is a premise, a foundation (idea) on which your entire personality is built. This image, not only controls your behavior but your circumstances as well.”

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Author:Maxwell Maltz

“Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.”

People May Mean Happens Understanding Doubt Events Circumstances Expectations Behave

Author:Epictetus

“I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the freedom, which unemployment gives you, and that was to behave as badly as I believed I should under the circumstances. And the circumstances were quite awful.”

Giving Circumstances Losing Reputation Behave

Author:Jules Feiffer

“Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.”

Humans Mean War Born Democracy Rights Danger Circumstances Normal Human Rights Terror Israel British Behave Britain Introducing Mandates

Author:Shimon Peres