S. I. Hayakawa Quotes - Page 2

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• I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Believe, Groups, Minorities

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• There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

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  Giving, Age, Aging

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• The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.

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  Political, Voting, Identity

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• In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.

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  Real, Drama, Years

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.27-28), 1991.

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• Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Occupation, Advertising, Symbols

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p. 269), 1991.

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• English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  People, Common, Language

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• The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

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  United States, Culture, Common

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• English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

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  Opportunity, Keys, Participation

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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.

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  Children, School, Patriotic

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• The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  People, United States, Ability

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• The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Grandfather, Maps, Lasts

  S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”

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• Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

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  Agreement, People, Mind

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

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  Inspirational, Funny, Truth

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• We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

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  Golf, Trying, Principles

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.14), 1991.

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• How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

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  Death, Dirty, Self

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• The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.

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  Dream, Children, Opportunity

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• The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.

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  Land, Native Language, Ideas

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

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Law, Century, Jungle

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