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What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

B. F. Skinner

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
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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Explanation Justice Person Question See Understand
Men build society and society builds men.
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Architect Build Men Society
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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Freedom Happiness Human Illusion Necessary
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
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Education Forget Graduation Survive Teacher
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
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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Animal Difference Learning People
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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Deep Love Positive
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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Happiness Man Production Skill
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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Men Question Reality Technology Thinking
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
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
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Creation Environment Himself History Poem Poet Production
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he’s often sure he can find one. And that’s a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
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Enjoyment Philosophy Science

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