People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well … - S. I. Hayakawa

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If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

S. I. Hayakawa

People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.

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Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

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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 before they die.

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

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The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

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