"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals."

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Source : Edward Lee Thorndike (1898). “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals”

Edward Thorndike

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“It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.”
“I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.”
“The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”
“I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.”
“That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .”
“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”
“What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.”
“I've been listening to a lot of gospel. I think it's the most beautiful kind of music. Just thinking about a group of people on a Sunday morning - no drugs, no partying, just connecting with a higher power. Then there's usually a choir joining together on one or two mics, creating this soulful music. So the recording captures the spirit that comes through.”

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