I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
B. F. SKINNERI 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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Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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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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Behavior is determined by its consequences.
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A 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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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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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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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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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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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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