When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
B. F. SKINNERBehavior is determined by its consequences.
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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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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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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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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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Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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Men build society and society builds men.
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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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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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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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