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- That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
- Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to…
- The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is…
- The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process…
- 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…
- Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power…
- If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
- 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,…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide