S. I. Hayakawa Quotes

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation.

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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

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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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By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood.. Is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.

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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action

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We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

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