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“We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is staleidentity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (18641929)
“When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathizeany strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (18641929)
“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (18641929)
“The bashful are always aggressive at heart.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (18641929)
“Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)