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Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Advertising
Occupation
Symbols
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English, our common language, binds our diverse people.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Common
Language
People
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McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Mcdonalds
Pearls
Revenge
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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Funny
Inspirational
Truth
Speak
Lose
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The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
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There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.
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Age
Aging
Giving
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Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Bilingualism
Country
Individual
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Age
Important
Substance
Image
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Give Me
Lawsuit
Relish
Hamburger
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Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Agreement
Mind
People
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We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Peace
War
Squares
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English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Opportunity
Keys
Participation
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The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Common
Culture
United States
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Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Education
Teacher
Teaching
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Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Inspirational
Thinking
Writing
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The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Ability
People
United States
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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.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Arguing
Different
Guy
Same Thing
You Guys
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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.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Book
Literature
Reading
Real
Good People Real
Real Sense
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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.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Children
Patriotic
School
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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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Century
Jungle
Law
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Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.
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Language
People
Together
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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.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Life
Book
Reading
Wish
More
Live
Only
True
Read
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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.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Failure
Men
Differences
Happens
Three
Between
Difference
Failed
Times
Himself
Notice
Says
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I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.
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Believe
Groups
Minorities
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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.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Work
Creativity
Given
Ideas
Said
Situation
Victim
Everybody
Else
Everybody Else
Representative
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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 / Former United States Senator
Grandfather
Lasts
Maps
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How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Death
Intelligence
Dirty
Self
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Chance
Finding Yourself
Individual
Littles
Reasonable
Finding
Stands
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Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.
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Definitions
Noise
People
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You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Order
Party
Writing
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If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Community
Employment
Would Be
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Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Men
Civilization
Waiting
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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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Literature
Wish
Life Good People
Read
Real Sense
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The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.
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Dream
Opportunity
Children
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The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Identity
Political
Voting
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Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.
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Character
Feet
People
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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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Golf
Principles
Trying
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America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.
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America
Color
Race
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Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Ideas
Opposites
Views
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The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.
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Ideas
Land
Native Language
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If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Society
Giving
Philosophical
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The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Education
Believe
Children
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Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Animal
Clothes
Struggle
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In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.
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Drama
Real
Years
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People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.
S. I. Hayakawa / Former United States Senator
Philosophy
Selfish
Struggle
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