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I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky		Tuesday Dec 30, 2025
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If you can 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. Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa

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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa

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. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was educated in the public schools of Calgary, Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba; received his undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 1927; graduate degrees in English from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1928, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1935.

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It is the individual who knows how little he knows about himself who stands a reasonable chance of finding out something about himself before he dies.

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

If you can 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.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to loose.

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