#conditioned

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#been #boot #both #conditioned #experimental

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#attention spans #audience #because #being #clearly

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#come #conditioned #cultures #gender #happen

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#christianity #common #conditioned #correspondence #could

Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#biggest #biggest thing #conditioned #high #how

Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#gotten #hard #i #past #sleep

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. ↗

— Richard Rosen

#because #conditioned #dogs #end #ever

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#creative #dynamic #effects #genuine #however