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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.

B. F. Skinner

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Experience Music Pieces
Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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Ideas Myself People Thinking Value
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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Action Inspirational Journey Start
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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Attitude Judgement Person
Going out of style isn’t a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year’s dress in order to make it worthless.
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Change Destroy Fashion Process Style Worth
Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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Ideas Myself People Thinking Value
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior – verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.
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Control Education Mystery Relationship Responsible Satisfaction Simplicity View
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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Construction Problem Problem Solving
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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Choice Survive Value
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
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Consumer Future People Save World
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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Principle Recognition Run Study Yourself
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Education Failure Give Up Inspirational Mistake Perseverance Reality Stop Try
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Act Chance Repeat
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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Animal Difference Learning People
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Education Forget Graduation Survive Teacher

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