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Practice Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- 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…
- 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…
- Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make…
- The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid…
- Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.
- Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who…
More Practice Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the… — Hosea Ballou
- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong