We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale -- identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

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Charles Horton Cooley: "We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale -- identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual."

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Actual	Attainable	Because	Causes
Communication	Company	Difference	Dull
Excitement	Feel	Ideas	Identical
Identity	Lies	Mind	Must
Natures	Opens	Other	Over
Power	Similar	Stale	States
Stimulating	Strongly	Totally	Toward
Unimaginable	Unlike	Unrealizable	Wholly

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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale -- identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual. - Charles Horton Cooley