"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
-B. F. Skinner
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"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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"If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment."
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"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount."
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"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
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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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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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