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"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."
"I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared."
"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."
"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."
"And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to."
"The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough."
"I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man."
"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."
"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."
"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform."
"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals."
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