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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Cell Hermit Hospitality Intercourse Mind Place

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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Admire Cease Deterioration Proof

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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Back Failure Fall God Humanity Sometimes Spirit You

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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Absence Concerned Discipline Far Forms Freedom Higher Less Lower Means More Rational Those Use

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There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Arrogance Betray Children Credit Foreigner Him His Less Most Neglect Nothing Our Out Set Than Unless Us

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The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Aggressive Always Bashful Heart

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Assert Exert Fields Itself Life Likely More Need Open Power Thwarted Trifles

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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Doing Dull Going Great Idea Illusion Life Means Minds Natural Obvious Place Seeing Things Variety

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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Accepted Becomes Between Broken Character Divine Even Good Hardly He Him His Imagination Impression Lack Man Painful Unity Whole Words

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To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Advantage Away Change Chief Environment Get Often Self Sense Travel Working

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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