The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us – here and now.
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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Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
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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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It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
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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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Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.
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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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