A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Author: B. F. Skinner

Author: B. F. Skinner

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I didn't say any of this to my sister. How I saw her being broken into mediocrity and motherhood; he

Author: Anne Enright
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The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hop

Author: Julio Alexi Genao
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We are not our own light.

Author: Nicolas Malebranche
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I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

Author: Philip Pullman
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Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.

Author: Amit Ray
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When you make a commitment, you build trust. when you keep it, you build trust.

Author: Moywaywa
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But deep this truth impress'd my mind: Thro' all His works abroad,The heart benevolent and kindThe m

Author: Robert Burns
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What might be considered loyalty in onesociety might not necessarily be the same for another.

Author: Gloria D. Gonsalves
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Every day is as amazing as we decide it is.

Author: Toni Sorenson
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When you are success oriented it is much easier to succeed than to fail.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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...you belong here, and it’s time you realize it. No one put a Scarlet A on your chest. This church

Author: Tiffany Reisz
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I just want a friend who “gets” me and then wants to keep me—flaws and all.

Author: Toni Sorenson
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The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not fo

Author: Wilkie Collins
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Wind has no feet,but travels great distances,and has no hands,but carries great objects.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we

Author: Toni Sorenson
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Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

Author: Haruki Murakami
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It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Person

Author: Erin Bow
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We’d all agreed that we’d outgrown jumping rope, but Shady had given me such a nice gift of a skippi

Author: Clare Vanderpool
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The existence of conscious minds and their access to the evident truth of ethics and methematics are

Author: Thomas Nagel
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You can never please everybody, don't even try.

Author: Stella Oladiran
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Youth is a blind incongruous beast. It craves food but does not eat, is too timid to eat; it need si

Author: N. Kazantzakis
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With religion we divide people. With unconditional love we bring them under the same umbrella.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their

Author: Nouman Ali Khan
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You call yourself an Atheist because you don’t believe in the supernatural. But one thing you do not

Author: King Samuel Benson
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The flawlessly beautiful were flawlessy happy, weren't they? To Kristy this had always seemed self-e

Author: Clive Barker
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Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

Author: Camron Wright
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I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Author: Thomas Jefferson
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It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just

Author: Ellen Key
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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that

Author: Henry David Thoreau
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I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

Author: Penn Jillette
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Deep down we all know that freedom is a choice, yet so many of us don’t feel that truth.

Author: Beth Kempton
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O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.

Author: Unknown
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There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

Author: Jim Butcher
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And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom, while out of a still

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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1. “Being able to depend on a person’s integrity lays a solid foundation for a relationship built on

Author: Susan C. Young
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I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers,

Author: Walter Cronkite
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Entrepreneur starts with an exaggeration, converts to a dream and then ends it with a vision!

Author: Jasleen Kaur Gumber
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The universe is God's son.

Author: Dejan Stojanovic
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A well hit golf shot is a feeling that goes up the shaft, right through your hands and into your hea

Author: Ben Hogan
Quote #18434

Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion – it is a mockery of religion, like it has

Author: Abhijit Naskar
Quote #414767

Timing degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Author: R. I. Fitzhenry
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Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, a

Author: Penn Jillette
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It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our v

Author: Virgil Goode
Quote #11711

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reaso

Author: George Carlin
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My life, my soul is anything but finished hence it is not perfect. Only masterpieces are finished an

Author: Daniel Gyorki
Quote #83027

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Author: Jane Wagner
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You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of

Author: Mitch Albom
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I'm sorry you lost the suit,' he said.She shrugged.'At this point, it was mostly a metaphor anyway,'

Author: James S.A. Corey
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An adventure is nothing but a story. After the adventure ends, it’s nothing but a memory; a shadow o

Author: Alex Z. Moores
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I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get

Author: Paloma Faith
Quote #176168

To lose focus means to lose energy. The absolutely wrong thing to attempt when we've lost focus is t

Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the ri

Author: Mehmet Oz
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People make promises that they have every intention of keeping at the time but when it comes to cash

Author: Mercy Cortez
Quote #42866

Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it.

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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What’s it like, for you to sense me?” she asked. Her eyes were wide now, emerald green in the lampli

Author: B.T. Lowry
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiri

Author: Tadao Ando
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Positivity brings about a peace of mind which in turn relaxes your whole being.

Author: Suman Arora
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To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I’m a timid town bred child,A

Author: T.S. Eliot
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A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases,

Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The challenge of being authentic for people pleasers is that we really want people to like and accep

Author: Susan C. Young
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We look at the world once, in childhood.The rest is memory

Author: Louise Glück
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The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he

Author: George MacDonald
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You know, I went through life and found that the bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking

Author: Moutasem Algharati
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I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either t

Author: Khloe Kardashian
Quote #494579

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Author: George Eliot
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If we wish to understand our own place on earth, we must seek to understand those who have gone on b

Author: Ian Mortimer
Quote #179081

A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecomin

Author: Katie Cotugno
Quote #314802

The Smile won Matthew extra time before bed, extra Christmas pudding, extra anything he wanted. Adul

Author: Cassandra Clare
Quote #51374

A world full of "certainties"All the plans, all the vanities.Where black covers the whiteSuited in "

Author: Sanhita Baruah
Quote #131749

A seed today is a forest tomorrow.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as

Author: Gayle Forman
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It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowl

Author: Frederick Sanger
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Make no mistake. I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to ove

Author: Don DeLillo
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You Know love when you see it, hear it, and feel it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Author: Amunhotep El Bey
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I don't have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl - like when I

Author: Anderson Cooper
Quote #192942

Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there’s no switch to turn off yo

Author: J.C. Reed
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You have a dress with a décolletage to emphasise your breasts. I suppose the cleavage is the proper

Author: Jeanette Winterson
Quote #443054

I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Bas

Author: Christopher Guest
Quote #48318

This worldly knowledge is not called (Real) Knowledge. It is worldly knowledge. The scriptural knowl

Author: Dada Bhagwan
Quote #51401

A totally new kind of education is needed in the world. The person who is born to be a poet is provi

Author: Osho
Quote #37741

Happiness is very simple. To be happy, think happiness.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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At what point in your life do you say I have had enough... money, food, clothes, these possessions t

Author: Robert Kodingo
Quote #63421

We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l

Author: Umberto Eco
Quote #38745

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are

Author: C.D. Wright
Quote #271727

If I can change the way you think, I can help you to incredibly success".

Author: Unknown
Quote #352976

…it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the

Author: Jeanette Lynes
Quote #171651

You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things

Author: Suzy Kassem
Quote #335908

It's a losing battle at this point,but so was the alamo

Author: Mary Elizabeth Summer
Quote #204268

Kill the blames and you will put your shames into blazing flames. Look for solutions, not problems!

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #79496

Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor

Author: Pierce Brown
Quote #403714

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Author: Andrew Carnegie
Quote #404496

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any ot

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote #230798

Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffe

Author: Viktor E. Frankl
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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my

Author: Benazir Bhutto
Quote #312686

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Quote #395466

What sinks of iniquity these little villages can be

Author: M.C. Beaton
Quote #109105

If she opened the closet with her skeletons, they might drag her in with them.

Author: Kayla Krantz
Quote #472099

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

Author: Wendy Kopp
Quote #348377

It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust.

Author: Livia Blackburne