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

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Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1964). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.248, Transaction Publishers

Charles Horton Cooley

#Struggle Quotes #Passion Quotes #Self Quotes

“Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.”
“Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.”

Source : "The Light Fantastic". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.
“The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.”
“I canâ€™t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.”
“Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.”
“Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors.”
“Then thereâ€™s the biggest problem of them all â€“ the problem of being in an Audi TT when you are not called Angela. I do not know why it can be driven by only people named Angela, but thatâ€™s a fact and thereâ€™s nothing we can do about it. If you have a TT and you arenâ€™t called Angela, you have the wrong car.”
“Long ago, when I was a very young girl, I said that I wanted to go everywhere, see everything, taste everything. hear everything, touch everything, try everything before I died. There isn't anything you can name that a woman can do that I haven't done. I don't intend to stand by and be a spectator. I want to be right in there in the midst of it, right up to my nose - totally involved in the community, in the world, in the stream of history, in the human image.”

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