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What is sought can never produce the seeking.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Never Produce Seeking Sought

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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Achievement Activities Daily Daily Lives Dishes Even Example Filled Hand Lives Mundane Once People Personal Sense Small Task Tasks Washing

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I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Any Control Kind Opposed Totalitarian Would

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Reinforcement is being right.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Being Reinforcement Right

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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Behavioral Conditions Dire Environmentalists Few Few People Future Journalists People Powerful Respond Scientists Tend Those Who

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I never really expected to be controversial.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Controversial Expected Never Really

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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: About Any Come Culture Defined Doubts Ever Father Had Mother Mother And Father Parents Punished Strictly Think Very

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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Get Improve Know Prefer Religion Rid Want Whether

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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Changed Culture Inherited Last Look Made Novel People Stop Think Two Whether Wonder Word I Think

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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Along Coming Get Quantity Reasonably Simply Statements Up Valid Very Well World You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 20th, 1904

Died: August 18th, 1990

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