We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. SKINNERWe have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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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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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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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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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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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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I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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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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If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
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What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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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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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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