S. I. Hayakawa Quotes

• It’s ours. We stole it fair and square.

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

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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.

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• So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.

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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.

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

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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.

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• Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation.

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S. I. Hayakawa (10)

Birth:	18th July, 1906
Death:	27th February, 1992
Nationality:	American, Canadian
Profession:	Linguist, Politician, Professor, Psychologist, Writer

About

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was an English professor, and served as president of San Francisco State University and then as United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was educated in the public schools of Calgary, Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba and received an undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba in 1927 and graduate degrees in English from McGill University in 1928 and the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1935.

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