"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
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"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.“
-Charles Horton Cooley
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"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God."
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"An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one."
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"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
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"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."
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"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."
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
-Roald Dahl
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-Charles Lindbergh
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