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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Charles Horton Cooley
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Charles Horton Cooley
Age: 64 †
Born: 1864
Born: August 17
Died: 1929
Died: May 27
Economist
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
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Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
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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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To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
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