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A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

B. F. Skinner

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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Animal Difference Learning People
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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Education End Simplicity
Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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Education Learning Need Teaching
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
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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Cry Goodness Life Wait
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Change Men Science See Transformation
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Acceptance Science Willing
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
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Attack Help Society
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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Children Deserve Economic Gift Goodness Love Quality Serve Woman World
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
Men build society and society builds men.
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Architect Build Men Society
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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Explanation Justice Person Question See Understand
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Act Chance Repeat
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
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

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