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Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's ...

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Language in Action

If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to ...

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Language in Thought and Action

It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives ...

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Language in Thought and Action

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an...

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Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional i...

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S. I. Hayakawa

Former United States Senator

Born: 1906-07-18

Died: 1992-02-27

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and political figure. He was an English professor, served as president of San Francisco State University and then a United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.More