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B. F. Skinner

Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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Children Education Himself Myself
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of “winning friends.
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Affection Friendship Parents Problem Win
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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Easy Education Improvement Men Moon School
The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
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Disturb Feeling Himself Intelligence Men Personality
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
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Creation Environment Himself History Poem Poet Production
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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Deep Love Positive
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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Important Talk
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Act Chance Repeat
It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.
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Action Inspirational Journey Start
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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Explanation History Mindset Person Work
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.
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Born Intelligence Man Moments Problem Solve
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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Happiness Man Production Skill
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Change Men Science See Transformation
A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Principle Recognition Run Study Yourself
Men build society and society builds men.
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Architect Build Men Society

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