Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for the harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and civilization. - I. Hayakawa Quotes
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for the harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and civilization. I. Hayakawa
 

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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. - I. Hayakawa Quotes

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

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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. - I. Hayakawa Quotes

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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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. - I. Hayakawa Quotes

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

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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. - I. Hayakawa Quotes

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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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, - I. Hayakawa Quotes

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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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. - I. Hayakawa Quotes

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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times' and what happens when he says, I'm a failure. - I. Hayakawa Quotes

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times' and what happens when he says, I'm a failure.

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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. - I. Hayakawa Quotes

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.

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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. - I. Hayakawa Quotes

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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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. - I. Hayakawa Quotes

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.

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