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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. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#contribute #fail #far #freedom #function

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#beings #eyes #live #our #reflection

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#best #between #classes #country #dependence

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#change #complaining #complaints #never #reduce

Cure for an obsession: get another one. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#cure #get #obsession

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#friends #never #sometimes

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#does #increases #number #people #predominance

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#cherish #goodwill #mercy #mind #nor

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#alone #common #determination #educated #education

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#absolutely #collecting #legalized #more #necessary