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Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

B. F. Skinner

A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he’s often sure he can find one. And that’s a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
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I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
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A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.
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The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
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Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

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Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

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