B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa."
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Vices
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Dean Martin
Singer
"I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well"
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous."
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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."
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"Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves."
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"I think my vice would be outdoing myself."
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"The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice."
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"He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
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"Amplification is the vice of modern oratory."
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"A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior."
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"It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse."
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"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask."
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"It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices."
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"I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa."
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"Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope"
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"Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised."
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"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
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"Virtue is health, vice is sickness."
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"I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores."
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"One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it."
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"Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary."
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"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."
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"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."
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