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S. I. Hayakawa - From the Books category:
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)
S. I. Hayakawa - From the Culture category:
If you see in any given situation only what everyone 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)
S. I. Hayakawa - From the Failure category:
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)
S. I. Hayakawa - From the Knowledge category:
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)
S. I. Hayakawa - From the Rewards category:
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. (S. I. Hayakawa)
S. I. Hayakawa - From the Teaching category:
Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place. (S. I. Hayakawa)
S. I. Hayakawa - From the Words category:
The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us. (S. I. Hayakawa)
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