| If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. |
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- S.I. Hayakawa |
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| Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. |
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- S.I. Hayakawa |
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| Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. |
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- S.I. Hayakawa |
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| Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure." |
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- S.I. Hayakawa |
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