When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
B. F. SKINNERIf the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
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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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An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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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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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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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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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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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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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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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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