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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

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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Born Breed Education Genius Men Production
That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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Behavior Change Teaching Transformation
The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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Army Battle Fear People
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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Abuse Deep Education Important Listening Mental Skin Talk Violence
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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Accomplishment Education Fear Live Punishment Trouble
I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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Afraid Believe Death God Myself
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
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
Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
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Himself Man Nature Past Understand World
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Acceptance Science Willing
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
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
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 permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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Blame Born Education Failure Live Ourselves Understand Way Wrong
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Age Change Environment Try Yourself

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

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