B. F. Skinner Quotes

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
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You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
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I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
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Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.
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Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
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Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
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We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.