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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#attributable #causes #every #freedom #general

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#also #art #cannot #generally #individual

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#control #effective #effective way #energy #fact

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#inner life #inordinate #largely #life #literature

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#ashamed #brave #cowardly #evasive #eyes

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

#cares #ceases #conflict #game #him

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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A man wrapped up in himself always suffocates. But his loved ones will forever hold in their hearts the memory of that Christmas. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #love #suffocation #funny

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#blame #find #harder #living #living alone

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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