Carroll Quigley Quotes
The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.Carroll Quigley
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
Adam Cohen -
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner -
You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.
Laura Fraser -
I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
Pat Robertson -
I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
Rand Paul -
If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.
Natalie Morales
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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
Nate Silver -
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
B. F. Skinner -
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
Lafcadio Hearn -
I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
Edith Widder -
As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein -
Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.
Andrew Bernstein
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They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another.
Erykah Badu -
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.
Ben Bernanke -
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
Benjamin Cardozo -
The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.
Napoleon Hill -
Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
Vance Havner -
Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.
F. F. Bruce Quotes
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
Honore de Balzac -
Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are later bequeathed. To the extent that the long-run uptrend in stock prices continues, switching from security to security involves realizing capital gains that are subject to tax. Taxes are a crucially important financial consideration because the earlier realization of capital gains will substantially reduce net returns.
Burton Malkiel -
Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Men don't want to be confused by the facts when their minds are already made up. Women know the art of negotiation - just ask the mother of a four-year-old who refuses to eat his veggies or the parent of a teenager.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar -
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
Ernestine Rose -
The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.
Carroll Quigley