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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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
Charles Horton Cooley
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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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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
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