B. F. Skinner Quotes

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition, falsity, or misinformation. And there is no better system for determining the truth than free speech: Testing the validity of an idea in the waters of public discussion and debate.
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I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.
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The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.
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I just remember having the President's Fitness Challenge when I was in elementary school and middle school. You had to do different activities, and at the end of it, I think you got a little pin or a badge. I was like, 'How do we incorporate Captain America into high school?' You would have the 'Captain America Fitness Challenge.'
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If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.
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To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.