Charles Horton Cooley

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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