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Charles Horton Cooley has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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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…
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
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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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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
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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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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
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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…
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The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength…
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It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly…
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The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book…
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Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.
— Edward Abbey
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In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and…
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Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make…
— Martin Luther
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Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly…
— Sterling W Sill
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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be…
— Aleister Crowley
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"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
— Joseph Addison
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Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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