“SPAN ID=We_live_in>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.

—  S. I. Hayakawa, book Language in Thought and Action

Source: Language in Thought and Action (1949), The Pooling of Knowledge, p. 14

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