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Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!

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John B. Watson

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select - doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

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Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.

Admit, Advocates, Artist, Doctors, Race, Years

Men are built, not born. . . . Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood. . . . I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless.

Baby, Dope, Education, Fiend, Gunman, Men

There are. . . for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.

Calling, Instinct, Men, Psychology, Training

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

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No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started. . . It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

General, Ideas, Origin, Religion, Soul
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