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"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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"Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love."
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"Always act as if you are living the epitome of a magnificent life."
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"Dream, desire, and then dare to discover."
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"When you have an idea about something, let begin to work on it to bring it to life."
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"The city shall be cleared of any dirt, if every community acts collectively."
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"As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?"
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"PULL and PUSH" are basic principles of life. You must PULL to work hard and then PUSH to give hard"... The reason why we gain is to give!"
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"In order to deliver people we need to have a strategy, to have a plan of deliverance."
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"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."
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"Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing."
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Explore more quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
Conviction

"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."
Impression

"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."
Self-Awareness

"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."
Etiquette

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

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

"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
Imagination

"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."
Life

"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."
Nation

"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
Time
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