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"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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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."
"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."
"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."
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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."
"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."
"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals."
"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."
"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."
"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."
"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."
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