If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. SKINNERA permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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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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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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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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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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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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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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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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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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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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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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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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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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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.
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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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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.
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