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

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. – William H. Mauldin

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Habit rules the unreflecting herd. – William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822

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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. – William Faulkner

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