"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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"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.“
-Charles Horton Cooley
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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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"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."
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"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
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"The whole system of society tells you what to do."
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"Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society."
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
-Sebastian Junger
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