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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

B. F. Skinner

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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Control Deep Different Way
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Age Change Environment Try Yourself
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Education Forget Graduation Survive Teacher
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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Principle Recognition Run Study Yourself
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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Principle Recognition Run Study Yourself
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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Choice Survive Value
Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it’s merely their guess.
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Different People Trying
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
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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Education End Simplicity
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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Easy Education Improvement Men Moon School
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
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
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
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

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