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Quote by S.I. Hayakawa
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see

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

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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

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Patriotism
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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

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Failure
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa

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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. – Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955

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