B. F. Skinner Quotes
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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I really don't think there's a world in which you can do anything with anybody. Because we're in the world of the White House, I think there are certain things you can do, and larger things that can happen, but I don't think you can do anything.
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The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.
