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BEHAVIOR: If you want to succeed, be like a duck above the surface act serene and calm, but below the surface, paddle like crazy. (Ann Landers, U.S. advice columnist, 1918-2002)

BEHAVIOR: There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

BEHAVIOR: If you want to succeed, be like a duck above the surface act serene and calm, but below the surface, paddle like crazy. (Ann Landers, U.S. advice columnist, 1918-2002)

BEHAVIOR: I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me. (Unknown source)

BEHAVIOR: There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. (Unknown Source)

BEHAVIOR: The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. (John Locke, English philosopher, 1632-1704Banks: I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

BEHAVIOR: Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. (Ben Okri, Nigerian poet and novelist, Born 1959)

BEHAVIOR: The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic writer, 1763-1825)

BEHAVIOR: We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. (J. K. Rowling, British novelist who is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series., Born 1965)

BEHAVIOR: If you want to succeed, be like a duck: above the surface act serene and calm, but below the surface, paddle like crazy. (Ann Landers, U.S. advice columnist, 1918-2002)

BEHAVIOR: It is better to die on your feet, than live on your knees. (Emiliano Zapata, leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, 1879-1919)

BEHAVIOR: Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

BEHAVIOR: The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. (John Locke, English philosopher, 1632-1704)

BEHAVIOR: Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1875-1961)

BEHAVIOR: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be a value. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

BEHAVIOR: Angry gods should not act just like humans. (Dionysus, Greek mythical god who may have been worshipped as early as c.1500-1100 BCE)

BEHAVIOR: A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher, 1821-1881)

BEHAVIOR: Life is a dance between making it happen . . . and letting it happen. (Arianna Huffington, Greek- American author, columnist, and co-founder and chief editor of The Huffington Post, Born 1950)

BEHAVIOR: Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. (Norman Cousins, U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

BEHAVIOR: The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. (Thomas Macaulay, British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859)

BEHAVIOR: What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? (George Eliot [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], English novelist, 1819-1880)

BEHAVIOR: There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone. (Margot Asquith, Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit, 1864-1945)

BEHAVIOR: Just when I changed all of life's answers, they changed all the questions. (Paul Simon, U.S. politician who served both in the House of Representatives and the Senate, 1928-2003)

BEHAVIOR: I cried because I had no shoes. Then I saw a man who had no feet. (Unknown Source)

BEHAVIOR: Think for yourself and question authority. (Timothy Leary, U.S. psychologist and writer, 1920-1996)

BEHAVIOR: Anybody who tries to be something to everybody is nobody to anybody. (Unknown source)

BEHAVIOR: Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

BEHAVIOR: I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do â€” the day after. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

BEHAVIOR: The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. (Gloria Steinem, U.S. feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, Born 1934)

BEHAVIOR: Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)

BEHAVIOR: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. (Finley Peter Dunne, U.S. humorist, social critic, and writer, 1867-1936)