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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and others. When he had no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

added by Normando
1 year ago

As someone with ADHD, the way my computer behaves in a day influences my mood, my productivity, and my energy levels, this became more apparent with virtual work when I had no break from my computer. The number of notifications I was receiving increased significantly and so did my anxiety levels.

Alexis Kane

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We mainly studied how dough behaves with and without yeast -- how the softness changes with leavening( rising), and how the dough responds to a temperature program during baking, this was fundamental to designing the pressure protocol for the dough without yeast.

Rossana Pasquino

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The key to the process is to design the pressure release rate not to stress the dough, which likes to expand gently, we mainly studied how dough behaves with and without yeast -- how the softness changes with leavening( rising), and how the dough responds to a temperature program during baking.

Di Maio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You just don't find soft, flexible, threadlike materials that are comfortable to the touch, that you can work with, that you can build a bridge out of it or you can build a powerline out of it, but you can also run it through a sewing machine, nothing else behaves like this.

Oliver Dewy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’ve always been given the impression that, whether he has immunity or not, he certainly behaves like he does.

Brad Edwards

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every single one of us behaves dramatically differently when the C-SPAN cameras are on. When the cameras are off and we’re in a classified briefing, suddenly people have their jackets off, they actually have conversations.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today’s announcement is focused on building in some of the compelling science about how the virus behaves, and how activities when done a certain way can reduce risk.

Mark Ghaly

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If this behaves like it has so far in the UK, Denmark and Ireland, yes it is going to become a progressively larger and larger proportion of all the cases out there no matter what we do, that's not to say that cases are necessarily going to go up.

Gregory Armstrong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

No one knows how a star behaves in the weeks before it explodes, and there were some ominous predictions that Betelgeuse was ready to become a supernova, chances are, however, that it will not explode during our lifetime, but who knows ?

Andrea Dupree

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's every reason to suspect that this virus, even though it can kill you, behaves pretty much like a cold virus, in terms of transmission. Who drives colds? Children drive colds, and that's true of almost all respiratory diseases, including the colds and including the colds that are caused by coronaviruses. And this is one of those cousins.

William Haseltine

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Be it the pro-India or separatist leaders, everybody is hiding behind Covid-19 in Greater Kashmir. There is no political activity, there are no statements issued by the pro-India or pro-freedom leadership, so local media doesn't have to make any choices what to publish and what not to publish, covid-19 situation has given breathing space to media in Greater Kashmir, but when this pandemic passes and political activity resumes, we have to see how the media local media behaves. We have to see whether they will face the challenges or succumb.

Altaf Hussain

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The dynamics for control of the epidemic may rely on factors that influence transmission of the virus such as infectiousness and spread or the virus by persons having mild or no symptoms, or by behaviors to reduce the spread of the virus, we are not dealing with a virus like influenza that behaves predictably every year.

Brittany Kmush

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The post-inflation reheating period sets up the conditions for the Big Bang and, in some sense, puts the bang in the Big Bang, its this bridge period where all hell breaks loose and matter behaves in anything but a simple way.

David Kaiser

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We know for sure it is not a plant but we don't really if it's an animal or a fungus, it behaves very surprisingly for something that looks like a mushroom (...) it has the behavior of an animal, it is able to learn.

Bruno David

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Light is sort of a weird thing. It behaves counterintuitively, in many ways, people didnt expect that this behavior could also be exhibited in other objects. But we showed, yes, you can see it in another object.

Kevin Croker

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

What's so special about S0-2 is we have its complete orbit in three dimensions, that's what gives us the entry ticket into the tests of general relativity. We asked how gravity behaves near a supermassive black hole and whether Einstein's theory is telling us the full story. Seeing stars go through their complete orbit provides the first opportunity to test fundamental physics using the motions of these stars.

Andrea Ghez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I just won't share a podium with someone that behaves in the way that he has.

Mack Horton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I would just like to say,' Don, it's Dave. Remember me ? I want to talk to Donald Trump.' Because I now don't know which is the real Donald Trump, and if the Donald Trump that I was talking to [ back then ] was the real Donald Trump, how do you get to be the guy Donald Trump is now ? politics notwithstanding -- let's just say everything is great and he's done a great job, but he still behaves the way he behaves -- who behaves like that ?!

David Letterman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

One big danger is imbuing in the American people's mind that the military's loyalty is not to them, but to Donald Trump, when Donald Trump behaves this way, it conveys a message to the American people that the military is not there for them, it's there for Donald Trump.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The new president of Mexico will have moral and political authority to demand everyone behaves with integrity and make honesty a priority as a way of life.

Lopez Obrador

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The region deserves better than further destabilization provoked by American withdrawal. So we want to adhere to it and see to it that Iran does too, that Iran behaves with restraint.

Le Drian

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Every time you go into the ocean you always run the risk of encountering the wildlife that is there, we just caution people to be aware of their surroundings, understand what the conditions are not only about what is in the water but how the water behaves and also to listen and heed any warnings from lifeguards and Ocean Safety staff.

Fire Chief Jim Frawley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Vladimir Putin's Russia behaves ... in some respects and in very important respects, as an antagonist, that is new. That is something, therefore, that we need to adjust to and counter.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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