"We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike……" — Charles Horton Cooley
"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."
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Charles Horton Cooley
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61 Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
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