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.
B. F. SKINNERIt has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student’s life.
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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
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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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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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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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The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn’t given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
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Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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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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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
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