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Charles Horton Cooley Quotes
«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.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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aggrandizement, attaching, constitutes, morally, persistent, plastic, self-aggrandizement, vigorous
«An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
«The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.»
«There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.»
«Institutions -- government, churches, industries, and the like -- have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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and the like, industries, on the whole, reconstruction, the like
«A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail. . . . Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
«There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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insignificant
«We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale -- identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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excitement, identical, similar, stimulating, strongly, unimaginable, unrealizable
«A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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ambitious, corroboration, excitement, expecting, imaginative, lucidity, ripe