Charles Horton Cooley

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    We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)