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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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"I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps."
"We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare."
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"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals."
"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."
"The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous."
"When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements."
"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature."
"This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man."
"The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations."
"On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character."
"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
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