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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
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
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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Carry Important Positive Reality Way
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of “winning friends.
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Affection Friendship Parents Problem Win
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Change Men Science See Transformation
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
It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
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Control Freedom Improvement Issues Men Mistake
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
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Men Question Reality Technology Thinking
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Acceptance Science Willing
Men build society and society builds men.
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Architect Build Men Society
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 mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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Army Battle Fear People
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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Attitude Judgement Person
I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.
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Difference Lying Men

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