"It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed……" — Charles Horton Cooley
"It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach."
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61 Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
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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…
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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…
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom…
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because…
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the…
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms…
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because…
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is,…
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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…
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation…
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your…
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