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Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.

S. I. Hayakawa's Popular Quotes

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

- S. I. Hayakawa

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

- S. I. Hayakawa

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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Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

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

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McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

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If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, see…

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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 …

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We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

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