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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.
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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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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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
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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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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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The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
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