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The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Co-Operation Control Effective Effective Way Energy Fact General Human Most Organized Rivalry Same Same Time Social Specialization Through Time Way Which

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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Antagonism Best Between Classes Country Dependence Feeling Free Hand Healthier Much Mutually Next Other Perhaps Pity Poorer Respecting Richer Than Thing

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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Above Genius Likely Mediocrity More Rise Sensitive Shrewd Somewhat Talent Than Too World

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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Inner Inner Life Inordinate Largely Life Literature Passions Record Self Social Struggle Very

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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Also Art Cannot Generally Individual Lives Order Our Social Social Order Unless Works

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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Criticize Except Fresh His Hopeful Mind Mood Never Own Should Suicide Tired Work

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As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Assurance Beings Eyes Live Our Reflection See Social Tranquillity Waters Which

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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Artist Cannot Fail Success

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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Compromise End Every Every Man He Man Means Necessary Prudence Should Which Will

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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Always Ashamed Brave Cowardly Eyes Gross Imagine Imagining Judgments Man Mind Other Presence Refined Seem Share Straightforward

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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