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Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

B. F. Skinner

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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Cry Goodness Life Wait
It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
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Control Freedom Improvement Issues Men Mistake
We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
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Achievement Book Education Greatness Love Reading Study Teacher
Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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Children Education Himself Myself
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 way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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Carry Important Positive Reality Way
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Change Men Science See Transformation
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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Animal Learning Myself Teaching
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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Feeling Man Rule Talk
Behavior is determined by its consequences.
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Attitude Determination
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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Attitude Judgement Person
In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
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Children Deserve Economic Gift Goodness Love Quality Serve Woman World
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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Education End Simplicity
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Experience Music Pieces
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

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