Quote by S.I. Hayakawa
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such direct

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – 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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Failure
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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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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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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. – Henry David Thoreau

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