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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
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
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Act Chance Repeat
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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Construction Problem Problem Solving
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Experience Music Pieces
The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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Army Battle Fear People
The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
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Disturb Feeling Himself Intelligence Men Personality
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
That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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Behavior Change Teaching Transformation
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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Carry Important Positive Reality Way
I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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Afraid Believe Death God Myself
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Acceptance Science Willing
Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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Deep Destruction Genius Mad Men
…not everyone is willing to defend a position of ‘not knowing.’ There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
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Ignorance Position Virtue Willing

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