It Is Not True That We Have

The Meanings Of Words Are Not In The Words, They Are In Us.

The United States, A Land Of Immigrants From Every Corner Of The World, Has Been Strengthened And Unified Because Its Newcomers Have Historically Chosen Ultimately To Forgo Their Native Language For The English Language. We Have All Benefited From The Sharing Of Ideas, Of Cultures And Beliefs, Made Possible By A Common Language. We Have All Enriched Each Other.

Notice The Difference Between What Happens When A Man Says To Himself, I Have Failed Three Times, And What Happens When He Says, I Am A Failure.

Few People...have Had Much Training In Listening. The Training Of Most Oververbalized Professional Intellectuals Is In The Opposite Direction. Living In A Competitive Culture, Most Of Us Are Most Of The Time Chiefly Concerned With Getting Our Own Views Across, And We Tend To Find Other People's Speeches A Tedious Interruption Of The Flow Of Our Own Ideas.

We Live In A Highly Competitive Society, Each Of Us Trying To Outdo The Other In Wealth, In Popularity Or Social Prestige, In Dress, In Scholastic Grades Or Golf Scores. One Is Often Tempted To Say That Conflict, Rather Than Cooperation, Is The Great Governing Principle Of Human Life.