I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn’t given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
B. F. SKINNERA child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
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Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
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The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.
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The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.
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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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We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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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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…not everyone is willing to defend a position of ‘not knowing.’ There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
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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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