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Kenneth L. Pike

"Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it."

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"

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"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."

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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

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"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."

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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

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"More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed."

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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."

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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."

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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."

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Kenneth L. Pike
"Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory."

Innovation

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Kenneth L. Pike
"Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it."

Society

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Kenneth L. Pike
"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."

Office

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Kenneth L. Pike
"Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results."

Courage

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Kenneth L. Pike
"We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?"

Language

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Kenneth L. Pike
"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us."

Universe

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Kenneth L. Pike
"So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me."

Experience

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Kenneth L. Pike
"There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake."

Truth

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Kenneth L. Pike
"The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study."

Man

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Kenneth L. Pike
"The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt."

Truth

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