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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley
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Charles Horton Cooley
Age: 64 †
Born: 1864
Born: August 17
Died: 1929
Died: May 27
Economist
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
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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.
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There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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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.
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The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.
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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.
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I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
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The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
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Each man must have his I it is more necessary to him than bread.
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
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