charles horton cooley

noun

Charles Hor·ton

[hawr-tn] , 1864–1929, U.S. author and pioneer in the field of sociology.

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Cooley Coo·ley (k&oomacr;'lē), Denton Arthur. Born 1920.

American surgeon and educator who in 1969 performed the first artificial heart transplant on a human.

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Charles horton cooley is always a great word to know.

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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"Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down, does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy."

-Charles Horton Cooley

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