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#1

“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: human-behavior

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#2

“Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

tags: alienation-versus-humanity, human-behavior

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#3

“... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.”
― L.S. Vygotsky

tags: childhood, human-behavior, human-nature, parenting

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#4

“The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

tags: human-behavior

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#5

“The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: future, human-behavior, human-condition, human-race, humanity-and-society, internet, modern-society, society, technology

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#6

“I am an inconsistent creature. Perhaps it is the pressure of my past, and not my own perverse mind, that has made me into this contradictory being. I am all too well aware of this fault in myself. You must forgive me.”
― Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro

tags: human-behavior, truth

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#7

“What sets our species apart is not just what men will do to other men, but how tirelessly they justify it.”
― William Dietrich, Napoleon's Pyramids

tags: human-behavior

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#8

“Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?”
― Robert Buettner, Overkill

tags: arrogance, conformity, grand-picture, human-behavior, human-superiority, humankind, science-fiction, universe, world-view

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#9

“To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.”
― Dan Ariely, The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

tags: economics, human, human-behavior, mind, motivation, wok

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#10

“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence”
― Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

tags: human-behavior, logic, mind, psychology

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#11

“What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe”
― Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

tags: human-behavior, logic, mind, psychology

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#12

“A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.”
― Michael Crichton

tags: abiogenesis, brain, conjecture, consciousness, darwinism, evolution, extraterrestrial-life, guessing, human-behavior, ignorance, knowledge, language, origin-of-life, religion, science, seti, speculation, theories, theory

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#13

“For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?”
― Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

tags: belief, human-behavior, logic, mind, psychology

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#14

“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: animal-behavior, animals, beasts, behavioral-psychology, blind, creatures, educate, education, human-behavior, human-nature, humans, ignorance, language, listen, natural-world, nature, primates, primitive, religion, society, teach, teaching, understanding, universe, wild, wild-and-free, wild-life, wilderness, wildlife, zoo

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#15

“I'm an expert in homo sapiens behavior. They can rationalize anything. Take war. They'll bankrupt their economies, sacrifie the best of their young, unleash a bloodbath that impresses even me, at the expense of providing shelter, food, and medicine for their own people. Compared to that, the sale of a few women is trivial.”
― Mario Acevedo, The Undead Kama Sutra

tags: human-behavior

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#16

“It is often said that what sets Shakespeare apart is his ability to illuminate the workings of the soul and so on, and he does that superbly, goodness knows, but what really characterizes his work - every bit of it, in poems and plays and even dedications, throughout every portion of his career - is a positive and palpable appreciation of the transfixing power of language. A Midsummer Night's Dream remains an enchanting work after four hundred years, but few could argue that it cuts to the very heart of human behaviour. What it does is take, and give, a positive satisfaction in the joyous possibilities of verbal expression.”
― Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

tags: a-midsummer-nights-dream, dedications, enchanting, four-hundred-years, goodness-knows, human-behavior, human-behaviour, joyous-possibilities, plays, poems, possibilities, power-of-language, shakespeare, the-soul, transfixing, verbal-expression, william-shakespeare, workings-of-the-soul

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#17

“My habit when I’ve been humiliated is to go out and buy a book.”
― Denis Johnson, The Name of the World

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#18

“In fact he was no longer persuaded that blood and revolution made useful tools for altering the concepts in a person’s mind. Who said it?—probably Confucius—” I can’t beat a sculpture from a stone with a sledgehammer; I can’t free the soul of a man by violence.” Peace was here, peace was now. Peace promised in any other time or place was a lie.”
― Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke

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#19

“You bury a friend—that gives you an enemy. It calls you more deeply into the cause. Then the time comes when you kill a friend. And that might drive you away. It can also have the opposite result—to deafen you against your own voice when it wants to ask questions.”
― Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke

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#20

“Nothing sudden is happening here. More is just suddenly being revealed.”
― Denis Johnson

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#21

“It was all right to be who he was, but others would probably think it was terrible. A couple of times in the past he'd reached this absolute zero of the truth, and without fear or bitterness he realized now that somewhere inside it there was a move he could make to change his life, to become another person, but he'd never be able to guess what it was.”
― Denis Johnson, Angels

tags: change, revelation, self

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#22

“Some people we glimpse as chasms, briefly but deeply, even to the death of us. Others are shallow places you never seem to get across.”
― Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic

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#23

“Well, it’s very much for each person to experience alone,” he said, and whatever truth he meant to get at, his eyes were the visible scars of it.”
― Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke

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#24

“Nobody's going to cook me and eat me, I hope."

"People don't quite understand," Michael said, and he may have been serious, "to be eaten pays a compliment to your power.”
― Denis Johnson

tags: cannibalism

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#25

“Survival was a breeze that touched some and not others. Neither hope nor hopelessness had anything to do with it.”
― Denis Johnson

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#26

“Is that why I went wild over her? Because once I saw her truly? Is devotion as simple as that?”
― Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic

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#27

“You’ve never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.”
― Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic

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#28

“Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, “This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.”
― Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke

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#29

“Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up.”
― Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic

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#30

“[G]ive him this much: death didn't just walk up and inhale him. He wasn't exactly whisked away. He left claw marks on his life.”
― Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic

tags: death-and-dying

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