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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.

B. F. Skinner

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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Animal Difference Learning People
The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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Army Battle Fear People
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word ‘admire’ then means ‘marvel at.’
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Admire Explanation Extent People Word
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Avoid Learning Person Punishment Simplicity Way
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
Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it’s merely their guess.
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Different People Trying
To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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Control Deep Different Way
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
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Decision Design Direction Education Life Myself Reality
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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Attitude Judgement Person
Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.
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Accomplishment Education Fear Live Punishment Trouble
That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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Behavior Change Teaching Transformation
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Age Change Environment Try Yourself
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Acceptance Science Willing
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
To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.
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Attitude Citizenship Destroy Loyalty Promise
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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Happiness Man Production Skill

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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