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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It is not true that we only have one life to live if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.S. I. Hayakawa
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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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. 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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The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.
S. I. Hayakawa
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