It’s ours. We stole it fair and square.
S. I. Hayakawa Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 18th July, 1906 |
| Death: | 27th February, 1992 |
| Nationality: | American, Canadian |
| Profession: | Linguist, Politician, Professor, Psychologist, Writer |
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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was an English professor, and served as president of San Francisco State University and then as United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was educated in the public schools of Calgary, Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba and received an undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba in 1927 and graduate degrees in English from McGill University in 1928 and the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1935.
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