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If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.
By S. I. Hayakawa
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
By S. I. Hayakawa
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.
By S. I. Hayakawa
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. 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.
By S. I. Hayakawa
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 than you are a victim of it.
By S. I. Hayakawa