"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount."
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"The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call 'death.' It's a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead."
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"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior."
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"Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality."
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"It's not my fault if reality is Marxist"
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"It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness."
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"I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."
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"Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see."
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"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none."
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"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."
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"Water is the driving force of all nature."
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"What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination."
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"I think, to me, reality is better than being fake."
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"Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience."
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"If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two."
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"In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations."
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"There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself."
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"We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start."
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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."
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"I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination."
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