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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
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
Admire
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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