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…not everyone is willing to defend a position of ‘not knowing.’ There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

B. F. Skinner

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
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Disturb Feeling Himself Intelligence Men Personality
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
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Men Question Reality Technology Thinking
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
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
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Experience Music Pieces
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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Construction Problem Problem Solving
The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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Born Breed Education Genius Men Production
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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Education End Simplicity
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Education Forget Graduation Survive Teacher
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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Abuse Deep Education Important Listening Mental Skin Talk Violence
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
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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Anxiety Death Myself Worry
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
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
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…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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