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"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."
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"Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them."

"Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns."

"Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations."

"The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation."

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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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