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Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

B. F. Skinner

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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Explanation History Mindset Person Work
Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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Children Education Himself Myself
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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Attitude Judgement Person
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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Development Mathematics Nature Process Reading Violence
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.
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Absence Control Feeling Force Freedom
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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Principle Recognition Run Study Yourself
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior – verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.
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Control Education Mystery Relationship Responsible Satisfaction Simplicity View
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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Consumer Future People Save World
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Act Chance Repeat
I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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Afraid Believe Death God Myself
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Change Men Science See Transformation
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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Deep Love Positive
Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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Education Learning Need Teaching
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

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