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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others. (Quote by - Benzel Sternan)

But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity. (Quote by - Shmuley Boteach)

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behaviour, we are complete ignoramuses We have psychology instead (Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour. (Quote by - John G. D. Clark)

The world is good-natured to people who are good natured. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. (Quote by - Moliere)

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. (Quote by - Helen Garner)

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. (Quote by - Lord Robbins)

If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. (Quote by - Samuel P. Ginder)

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men. (Quote by - Stephen Lewis)

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. (Quote by - Francesca M. Cancian)

We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly. (Quote by - Voltaire)

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect. (Quote by - Barry Levinson)

A smile is the shortest distance between two people. (Quote by - Victor Borge)

A market is the combined behaviour of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. (Quote by - Kenneth Chang)

Taking me from behind is something that is not worthy behaviour of a man. (Quote by - Nicolas Burdisso)

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)

The most vital test of a man's character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat. (Quote by - Raymond Moley)

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar. (Quote by - James Payn)

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