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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

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Charles Horton Cooley
Age: 64 †
Born: 1864
Born: August 17
Died: 1929
Died: May 27
Economist
Sociologist
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Charles Horton Cooley
Superiors
Torture
Exists
Capacity
Unless
Action
Mind
Accompanied
Thinking
Superior

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