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Behavior Quotes by Robert K. Merton
- The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true.…
- A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.
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