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• You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Mother, Teacher, Kings

  Astrid Lindgren (1998). “Pippi Goes to School”

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• So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Believe, People, Want

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.45, Penguin

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• Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Devastation, Today

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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• Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping." "That's too easy," he said. "On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.

  Elizabeth George

  Children, Mistake, Wish

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• Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Love Is

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.801, Simon and Schuster

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• The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Beer, Expression

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.208, Scholastic Inc.

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• Well,” Tessa said, sighting along the line of the knife, “you behave as if you dislike me. In fact, you behave as if you dislike us all.” “I don’t,” Gabriel said. “I just dislike him.” He pointed at Will. “Dear me,” said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. “Is it because I’m better-looking than you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Knives, Dislike Me, Apples

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

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• Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

  Paulo Coelho

  Adventure, Unique, Hands

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• I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Princess, Trying, I Can

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.42, Xist Publishing

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• Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

  Epictetus

  Life, Children, Hands

  "The Enchiridion". Book translated by Elizabeth Carter, 2006.

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• Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, People, Expectations

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• Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Punishment, Heaven

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• I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.

  Christopher Paolini

  Children, Father, Mean

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ideas, Doe, Surprise

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• In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Europe, People, Being Free

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• Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you’re worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Laughing, Bipolar

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• A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.

  B. Traven

  Believe, School, College

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• My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Father, Trying

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• Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.

  Simon Pegg

  Mean, Self, Play

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• Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Acceptance, Important

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• A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

  Richard Dawkins

  Play, Behaviour, Opponents

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.96, Oxford University Press

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• In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

  Brandon Mull

  Nymphs, Age, Youth

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• A quote from 'Fire' where Fire projected a thought to her best friend Archer: "Love doesn't measure that way, she [Fire] thought to him [Archer]. And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

  Kristin Cashore

  Archer, Fire, Feelings

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• Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong… Don’t bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Nice, Acceptance, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

  Carl Jung

  Fashion, Voice, Doe

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