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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student’s life.

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Attack Help Society
Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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Ideas Myself People Thinking Value
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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Education End Simplicity
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Act Chance Repeat
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
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
Men build society and society builds men.
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Architect Build Men Society
Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code – a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren’t any right people.
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Community Difficult Hands Need People Right Success Wrong
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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Deep Love Positive
The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
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Feeling Man Rule Talk
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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Change Destroy Fashion Process Style Worth
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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Animal Difference Learning People
Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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Action Battle Boredom
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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Absence Control Feeling Force Freedom
A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
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Children Men Necessary Play Punishment Sex Violence

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