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"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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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."
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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
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"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."
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"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."
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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."
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"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."
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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."
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"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."
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"We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs..."
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"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals."
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"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."
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"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."
Art
"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."
Life
"So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act."
Act
"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."
Life
"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."
Life
"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."
Intelligence
"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."
Dogs
"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."
Nature
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