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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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"Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar."
"I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign."
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"We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare."
"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!"
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"The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations."
"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."
"Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer."
"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind."
"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."
"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."
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