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Doe Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- 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…
- In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible…
- Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would…
- The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before…
- The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
- 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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- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
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- True information does good. — Julian Assange
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- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
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- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi