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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.
Charles Horton Cooley
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Charles Horton Cooley
Age: 64 †
Born: 1864
Born: August 17
Died: 1929
Died: May 27
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
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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.
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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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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
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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.
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Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
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It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.
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One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
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