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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.

B. F. Skinner

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 mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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Army Battle Fear People
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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Explanation History Mindset Person Work
We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.
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Attitude Character Nature Novel Respect Seen Selection Theory
…not everyone is willing to defend a position of ‘not knowing.’ There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
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Ignorance Position Virtue Willing
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Change Men Science See Transformation
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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Choice Survive Value
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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Explanation History Mindset Person Work
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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Education Learning Need Teaching
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
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
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
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Build Education Impossible Live Philosophy Problem World
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Experience Music Pieces

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