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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

B. F. Skinner

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
Men build society and society builds men.
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Architect Build Men Society
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Act Chance Repeat
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
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Age Change Environment Try Yourself
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.
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Born Intelligence Man Moments Problem Solve
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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Abuse Deep Education Important Listening Mental Skin Talk Violence
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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Comfortable Dedication Development Production Science Technology
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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Animal Difference Learning People
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.
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Born Intelligence Man Moments Problem Solve
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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Choice Survive 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
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Acceptance Science Willing
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men

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