The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
B. F. SKINNERA 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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I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
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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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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
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Going out of style isn’t a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year’s dress in order to make it worthless.
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But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.
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Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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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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Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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