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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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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
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The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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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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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word "admire" then means "marvel at."
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The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
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If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
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A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
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A person is not an originating agent; he is a locus, a point at which many genetic and environmental conditions come together in a joint effect.
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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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Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.
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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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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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Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
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Born:
March 20, 1904
Died:
August 18, 1990
(aged 86)
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