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The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote of conduct and of the consequences of conduct: they were concerned with a society of will and commandment.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Commandment Concerned Conduct Consequences Covenant Dickens George Jewish Novel Pinnacle Society Tolstoy Touched Were Will Wrote

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There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

~Dale Dauten

Topics: About Agree Athlete Bridges Burn Business Butt Co-Workers Come Conduct Encouragement Everybody Just Many Mind Offer Principles Professional Professional Athlete Proper Them Too Two Unless Which Will You

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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

~Dan Ariely

Topics: Better Conduct Data Decisions Examine Executives Experiments How Make Should Students Teach Tools Use Well

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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Berlin Chicago Conduct Get Last Monday Night Opera Performance Plane Rehearsal Same Start Sunday Used Week

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The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

~Dave Barry

Topics: Anybody Conduct Could Doubt Human Live Major Notice Parties Prime Sacrifices Time Would

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What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy.

~David A. Clarke, Jr.

Topics: Actions Anarchy Baltimore Baton Black Call Code Collapse Conduct Lives Many Matter Movement Occupy Order Peaceful Protest Rely Social Social Order Transcend Violates Witnessed

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As we put autonomous cars on the road, connect Alexas to our lights and our thermostats, put ill-protected Internet-connected video cameras on our houses, and conduct our financial lives over our cell phones, our vulnerabilities expand exponentially.

~David E. Sanger

Topics: Autonomous Cameras Car Cell Cell Phones Conduct Connect Expand Exponentially Financial Houses Lights Lives Our Over Phones Put Road Video Vulnerabilities

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In the 101st Airborne Division headquarters in Mosul, we had a sign on the wall. It was a question that we would ask ourselves before every new operation or policy initiative. It asked: Will this policy or operation take more bad guys off the streets than it creates by its conduct?

~David Petraeus

Topics: Ask Asked Bad Bad Guys Before Conduct Creates Division Every Guys Had Headquarters Initiative More New Off Operation Ourselves Policy Question Sign Streets Take Than Wall Will Would

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The proximate cause of Iraq's unraveling was the increasing authoritarian, sectarian, and corrupt conduct of the Iraqi government and its leader after the departure of the last U.S. combat forces in 2011.

~David Petraeus

Topics: After Authoritarian Cause Combat Conduct Corrupt Departure Forces Government Increasing Iraq Iraqi Last Leader Sectarian

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We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

~David Souter

Topics: Affirmative Caused Conduct Defense Discrimination Employer Hold Liable Looking Subject Supervisor Vicariously Victim Well

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