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Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

B. F. Skinner

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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Freedom Happiness Human Illusion Necessary
I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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Animal Learning Myself Teaching
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Acceptance Science Willing
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
A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
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Best Disappointment Mistake Perspective Quit Try
The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us – here and now.
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Cry Goodness Life Wait
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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Afraid Believe Death God Myself
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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Education End Simplicity
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
Men build society and society builds men.
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Architect Build Men Society
We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
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Angry Beginning Force Love Power Understand Weakness
We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
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Achievement Book Education Greatness Love Reading Study Teacher
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Attack Help Society
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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Attitude Citizenship Destroy Loyalty Promise
Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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Action Battle Boredom

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