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| 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 | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| By recognizing a favourable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says ''mine, mine,'' more fiercely. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| The bashful are always aggressive at heart. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| 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. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. | Charles I | 1600-1649, King of England and Ireland |
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| He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it. | Charles II | 1630-1685, King of England and Ireland |
| For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin. | Charles II | 1630-1685, King of England and Ireland |
| Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. | Charles J. Givens | American Businessman, Author, Trainer |
| The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement. | Charles J. Givens | American Businessman, Author, Trainer |
| Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. | Charles J. Givens | American Businessman, Author, Trainer |
| To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. | Charles J. Givens | American Businessman, Author, Trainer |
| Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort. | Charles J. Givens | American Businessman, Author, Trainer |
| He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level. | Charles James Fox | 1749-1806, British Statesman, Foreign Secretary |
| Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. | Charles James Fox | 1749-1806, British Statesman, Foreign Secretary |
| The worst of revolutions is a restoration. | Charles James Fox | 1749-1806, British Statesman, Foreign Secretary |
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| We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded. | Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman |
| Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day. | Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman |
| The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. | Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman |
| He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. | Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman |
| Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. | Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman |
| Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. | Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman |
| There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. | Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman |
| We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. | Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman |
| The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came. | Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman |
| Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises. | Charles Knight | |
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| There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. | Charles Krauthammer | |
| To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well. | Charles Kuralt | American TV Commentator |
| Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. | Charles Kuralt | American TV Commentator |
| The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road. | Charles L. Allen | |
| Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? | Charles L. Allen | |
| Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind. | Charles L. Lucas | |
| The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
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| Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| The beggar wears all colours fearing none. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
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