Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
B. F. SKINNERA 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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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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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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I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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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 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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Men build society and society builds men.
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An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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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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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.
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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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