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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
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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
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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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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
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If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
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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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Each man must have his I it is more necessary to him than bread.
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Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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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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The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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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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To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
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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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