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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Accompanied Action Capacity Exists Mind Superior Thinking Torture Unless

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To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Aspiration Back Heroes Live Momentum Narrow Past Routine Self Sensuality Thrown

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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Another Facts Imaginations People Society Solid Which

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There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Any Does Hardly He Imposing Insignificant Seem Some Time

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Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Churches Contribute Fail Far Freedom Function Government Human Human Freedom Industries Institutions Like Need Other Perform Properly Reconstruction Than Whole Wrong

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We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Apart Built Higher Idiot Imagining Life Other Our People Personality Power Really Them Up Without

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When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Because Cares Ceases Conflict Game He Him Lost More Out Passes Virtue Whether Won

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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Attacking Earnestly Life Particular Penetrate Point Surface Way

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Accompanied Causes Every Freedom General Increase Same Some

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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Avail Conviction Decorative Everything Fluency Grace Lack Like Logical Man May Merely Nothing Oratory Order Speaker Still Surface Tact Will Without

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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