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.
B. F. SKINNERThe 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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The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
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The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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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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What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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