"Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli"

-- B. F. Skinner

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“Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.”
“The truth--a hideous spectacle!”
“Women who talk about football tactics, it's beautiful. I find that fantastic. And you know what a 4-3-3 is, right?”

Source : "French football's best quotes in 2013: Zlatan, Beckham, Barton and Ribéry" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2013.
“My lord. It is too much, and not enough”
“No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.”

Source : "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.
“What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearanceâ€¦ in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, â€˜to cease to be among menâ€™) just as action in the sense of â€˜to make a beginningâ€™ is a repetition of birth.”
“I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.”

Source : Nancy E. Turner (2010). “Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906”, p.265, Macmillan
“The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.”

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