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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 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
Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
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Age Country Enjoy
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
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Acceptance Education Honesty Intellectual Value
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
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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Happiness Man Production Skill
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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Choice Survive Value
I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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Afraid Believe Death God Myself
Men build society and society builds men.
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Architect Build Men Society
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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Attitude Judgement Person
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
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
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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Easy Education Improvement Men Moon School
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Change Men Science See Transformation
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
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.
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Absence Control Feeling Force Freedom

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