We've obviously got to play some games without him. So we're proceeding as if we're playing without him and getting ourselves prepared, with the understanding that if he comes back, he's only going to improve our situation.


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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, polluti...
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a ...
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Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalist...
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how...
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I&...
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in ...
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activi...
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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't...
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The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the produ...
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian ...
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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about re...
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a th...
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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[T]he food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into...
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One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
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One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's confusions
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I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done...
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Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
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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...
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In o...
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I'm very pessimistic.
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I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
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I never really expected to be controversial.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inher...
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid st...
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the n...
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorro...
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I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co...
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything ...
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Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in ...
AL GOLDSTEIN
My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuf...
AL JARDINE