B. F. Skinner Quotes
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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It is good to be connected to family and friends, but when we cannot resist the urge to check updates or upload a photo, we are veering toward idolatry. Idols serve our needs according to our schedule. When we call, they answer. They give us a false sense of being in control. But over time, the relationship reverses. We end up attending to their needs, centering our lives on their priorities and agendas.
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Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
