"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."

Charles Horton Cooley, American Sociologist

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"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."

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"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."

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