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• ‟ So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

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• ‟ 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.

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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.

  - Edward Thorndike