"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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"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.“
-Charles Horton Cooley
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