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Charles Horton Cooley

"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."

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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."

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"You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile."

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"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."

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"You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes."

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"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."

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"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."

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"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."

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"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."

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"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

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