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The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.
B. F. Skinner
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B. F. Skinner
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 20
Died: 1990
Died: August 18
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner
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I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
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We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading.
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