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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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As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
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There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
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