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    B.F. Skinner
    “We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
    ― B. F. Skinner
    tags: achievement, great, love, reading, teach, trivial
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    B.F. Skinner
    “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. ”
    ― B.F. Skinner
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    B.F. Skinner
    “Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”
    ― B.F. Skinner
    tags: education, schools
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    B.F. Skinner
    “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, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.”
    ― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
    tags: control
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    B.F. Skinner
    “The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.”
    ― B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement; A Theoretical Analysis
    tags: machines, mystery, question, real, science, think
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    B.F. Skinner
    “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.”
    ― B.F Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity
    tags: avoidance, behavioral, learn, psychology, punishment, science
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    B.F. Skinner
    “What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.”
    ― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
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    B.F. Skinner
    “It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.”
    ― B.F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity
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    B.F. Skinner
    “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.”
    ― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
    tags: answers, philosophy, science
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    B.F. Skinner
    “If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.”
    ― B.F. Skinner
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    B.F. Skinner
    “...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.”
    ― B.F. Skinner
    tags: ignorance
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    B.F. Skinner
    “Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done Theology calls it building a conscience or developing a spirit of selflessness. Psychology calls it the growth of the superego.

    Considering how long society has been at it, you'd expect a better job. But the campaigns have been badly planned and the victory has never been secured.”
    ― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
    tags: society
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    Albert Ellis
    “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
    ― Albert Ellis
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    Albert Ellis
    “There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well . And the world must be easy.”
    ― Albert Ellis
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    Albert Ellis
    “Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.”
    ― Albert Ellis, PhD
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    Albert Ellis
    “The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ”
    ― Albert Ellis
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    Windy Dryden
    “People learn to be hostile,disparaging and manipulative because it works for them.these people expect you to react in certain ways to their style,because in that way they win.if you allow yourself to be sucked into their expectations,you have not only let them get away but you are bound to feel frustrated,helpless and eventuall your bad side of nature will reached its climax.”
    ― Windy dryden, How to Cope When the Going Gets Tough
    tags: inspirational
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Mother Teresa
    “Peace begins with a smile..”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
    tags: truth
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
    tags: despair, life
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
    tags: perspective, tragedy
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
    tags: death, life
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy
    tags: to-love
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, The Schopenhauer Cure
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Mature love is loving, not being loved.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy
    tags: love
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.”
    ― Irvin Yalom
    tags: counseling, death-anxiety, grief, psychology, staring-at-the-sun
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  • #31
    Irvin D. Yalom
    “I should have become an "I" before I became a "we".”
    ― Irvin Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
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