When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Still, I figure we shouldn't' discourage fans of actively managed funds. With all their buying and selling, active investors ensure the market… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators.… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune.… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they… — James Cook Copy Share Image
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Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image
If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
“Now, do you know of any cases where someone has—I mean, other than in the Frankenstein type of picture—do you know where… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans.… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by… — Marlene Caroselli Copy Share Image
“Hannah is missing school because one night, her father exiled her and her mother and Allison from the house. This was, obviously,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If you really stop resisting someone or stop judging them or stop being afraid of them or stop imagining they're going to… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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