When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
B. F. SKINNERWhen we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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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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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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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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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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