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How to use the word behavior in a Sentence? Page #59

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To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

– Russell L Ackoff

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It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.

– Paul Gruchow

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Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

– Flannery O'Connor

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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

– Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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Total self-esteem requires total and unconditional acceptance of yourself. You are a unique and worthy individual, regardless of your mistakes, defeats and failures, despite what others may think, say or feel about you or your behavior. If you truly accept and love yourself, you won't have a driving need for attention and approval. Self-esteem is a genuine love of self. Stop all adverse value judging of yourself. Stop accepting the adverse value judgments of others. Purge yourself of all condemnation, shame, blame, guilt & remorse.

– Unknown

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Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

– Amy Vanderbilt

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Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.

– Lillian Eichler Watson

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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

– Anonymous

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Our banking system is like a bunch of kids stealing from the cookie jar, and when the central bankers are questioned about it, they lie, or they say they're doing it for our own good - and then we keep putting cookies in the jar - and keep allowing them to steal - when all that's really happening is they're getting a free snack on us. They don't even have to be on their best behavior to get the treat!

– John Rocco Savalli

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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

– Johann von Goethe

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