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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
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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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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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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