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"It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal."
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"The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge."
"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."
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"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."
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