B. F. Skinner Quotes
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
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Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
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Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.
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You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.
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I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.
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Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.
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Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.
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Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
