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.
B. F. SKINNEROld age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
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The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
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I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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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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I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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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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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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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word ‘admire’ then means ‘marvel at.’
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Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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