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.
B. F. SKINNERThe one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us – here and now.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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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.
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I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
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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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In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
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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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Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.
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The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us – here and now.
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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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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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