#behavior

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#behavior #courtesy #heart #love #outward

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#almost #behavior #courtship #females #inheritance

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before. ↗

— Mike Hawkins

#before #behavior #desired #habit #just

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#defined #force #human #human rights #internalized

You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#behaviors #contact #encounter #estates #how

So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear. ↗

— Jeff Kinney

#santa #sleep #behavior

A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#christian-behavior #joy #behavior