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" We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. "

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" I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control. "

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" When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it. "

" No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been. "

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" If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. "

" I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me. "

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" I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed. "

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