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• Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

  Alex Trebek

  Determination, Believe, My Own

  "What I've Learned: Alex Trebek". Esquire, March 2003.

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• We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sex, Boys, Men

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.171, Pan Macmillan

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• If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, People, Ego

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• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Earth, Claims, Humans

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• Having integrity...means being completely true to what is inside you - to what you know is right...what you feel you must do, regardless of the immediate cost of sacrifice...to be honorable and to behave decently.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Integrity, Mean, Sacrifice

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• About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  Kurt Vonnegut (2001). “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.

  Price Pritchett

  World, Want, Action

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• When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

  C. S. Lewis

  Often Is, Feelings, Friendly

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, What Matters, People

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• ...those called by Christ's name should order their lives. They should persevere in prayers and supplications and, in imitation of the angels, have their eyes lifted up to the Master above the heavens, praising and blessing Him with irreproachable conduct, and waiting for His mystical Coming. As the Psalmist says to Him, 'I will sing and will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt Thou come unto me?' (Ps. 101:2).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Prayer, Eye

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• Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Memories

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• Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Laughing, Humanity

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• Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  Warren Weaver

  Animal, People, Religion

  Warren Weaver (1967). “Science and Imagination: Selected Papers”

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• You should love one another and behave lovingly
  because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one
  another with love and humility. Love is the essence.

  Prem Rawat

  Humility, Love Is, Essence

  Divine Light (UK), Volume 2, Issue 7, April 1, 1973.

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• Never be thrown off stride in how you behave or what you believe in because of outside events.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Events, Stride

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• When you see a horse that’s troubled, you sort of feel sorry for them, yet that doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t still ask the horse to behave and find a way to fit in and respond to you as well.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Sorry, Mean

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• These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Law, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Talking, Giving

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

  Carrie Fisher

  Actors, May, Know How

  Carrie Fisher (2008). “Postcards from the Edge”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Heart, Perfect, Tasks

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• The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behaviour reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how to behave within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself.

  Marcus Borg

  Jesus, Teaching, Talking

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• People who behave rarely make history.

  Josh Linkner

  People

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2011

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• When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others. By dividing endlessly, or by failing to die properly, these cells can destroy the necessary balance that makes a living individual person. Cancers break the rules that allow cells to cooperate with one another. Like bullies who break cooperative societies, cancers behave in their own best interest until they kill their larger community, the human body.

  Neil Shubin

  Cancer, Cells, Community

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• The experiments made on the mutual electrical relations of bodies have taught us that they can be divided into two classes: electropositive and electronegative. The simple bodies which belong to the first class, as well as their oxides, always take up positive electricity when they meet simple bodies or oxides belonging to the second class; and the oxides of the first class always behave with the oxides of the other like salifiable bases with acids.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Simple, Oxygen, Taught Us

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• I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

  Julie Walters

  Hands, People, World

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