Behavior Is Determined By Its Consequences.

The Alphabet Was A Great Invention, Which Enabled Men To Store And To Learn With Little Effort What Others Had Learned The Hard Way-that Is, To Learn From Books Rather Than From Direct, Possibly Painful, Contact With The Real World.

Your Liberals And Radicals All Want To Govern. They Want To Try It Their Way- To Show That People Will Be Happier If The Power Is Wielded In A Different Way Or For Different Purposes. But How Do They Know? Have They Ever Tried It? No, It's Merely Their Guess.

The Real Problem Is Not Whether Machines Think But Whether Men Do.

To Say That A Man Is Sinful Because He Sins Is To Give An Operational Definition Of Sin. To Say That He Sins Because He Is Sinful Is To Trace His Behavior To A Supposed Inner Trait. But Whether Or Not A Person Engages In The Kind Of Behavior Called Sinful Depends Upon Circumstances Which Are Not Mentioned In Either Question. The Sin Assigned As An Inner Possession (the Sin A Person "knows") Is To Be Found In A History Of Reinforcement.

In A World Of Complete Economic Equality, You Get And Keep The Affections You Deserve. You Can't Buy Love With Gifts Or Favors, You Can't Hold Love By Raising An Inadequate Child, And You Can't Be Secure In Love By Serving As A Good Scrub Woman Or A Good Provider.