Century Quote by S. I. Hayakawa

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

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

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Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

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