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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

B. F. Skinner

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
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
We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
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Angry Beginning Force Love Power Understand Weakness
It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
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Change Effort Mindset Violence
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Age Change Environment Try Yourself
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
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
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn’t given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
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Anxiety Death Myself Worry
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
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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Attitude Judgement Person
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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Construction Problem Problem Solving
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
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

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