The English Language Amendment Says Above All,

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.

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.

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.

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.

Advertising Is A Symbol-manipulating Occupation