"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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"An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one."
-Charles Horton Cooley
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"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."
-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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"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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"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."
-Charles Horton Cooley
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"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
-Ludwig Erhard
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"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
-Theodore Bikel
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"My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way."
-Robert Carlyle
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"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."
-Karl Kraus
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"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."
-Ben Okri
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