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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

B. F. Skinner

Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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Ideas Myself People Thinking Value
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn’t die out, it’s wiped out.
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Baby Curiosity Death Education Force Motivational Work
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 permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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Behavior Change Teaching Transformation
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Experience Music Pieces
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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Attitude Judgement Person
In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
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Children Deserve Economic Gift Goodness Love Quality Serve Woman World
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
Men build society and society builds men.
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Architect Build Men Society
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Attack Help Society
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Act Chance Repeat
We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Book Education Inspirational Love Reading Teaching
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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Construction Problem Problem Solving
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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Born Intelligence Man Moments Problem Solve
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

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

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