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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."

"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."
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"Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act."
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"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals."

"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 real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge."

"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."

"Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."
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