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

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Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

S. I. Hayakawa

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

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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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