The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.B. F. Skinner
Education is not just the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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