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I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.

B. F. Skinner

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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Best Disappointment Mistake Perspective Quit Try
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
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Change Men Science See Transformation
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Act Chance Repeat
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 don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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Afraid Believe Death God Myself
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
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Build Education Impossible Live Philosophy Problem World
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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Freedom Happiness Human Illusion Necessary
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Age Change Environment Try Yourself
I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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Animal Learning Myself Teaching
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
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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Anxiety Death Myself Worry
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Education Forget Graduation Survive Teacher
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Attack Help Society
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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Achievement Book Education Greatness Love Reading Study Teacher

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