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Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsen

Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. – W. H. Auden

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