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The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
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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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
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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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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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Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
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A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.
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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.
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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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Each man must have his I it is more necessary to him than bread.
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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 cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
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Each man must have his I it is more necessary to him than bread and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
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The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.
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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
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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 chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
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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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If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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