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Brain and muscles work together, and the brains of men are much more important data for social science than are their muscular system and their sense organs.
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John Dewey
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Dewey argues that understanding human behavior requires focusing on the brain's role rather than just physical attributes.
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The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.
Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.
There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.
For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.