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The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

B. F. Skinner

Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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Action Battle Boredom
Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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Children Education Himself Myself
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Age Change Environment Try Yourself
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of “winning friends.
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Affection Friendship Parents Problem Win
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
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Best Disappointment Mistake Perspective Quit Try
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.
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Comfortable Dedication Development Production Science Technology
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
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
Behavior is determined by its consequences.
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Attitude Determination
Men build society and society builds men.
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Architect Build Men Society
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Education Forget Graduation Survive Teacher
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
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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Control Deep Different Way
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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Attitude Judgement Person

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