We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
B. F. SKINNERWhen we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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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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The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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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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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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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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Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
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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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I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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