Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
B. F. SKINNERIt 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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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it’s merely their guess.
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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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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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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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The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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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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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
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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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A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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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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