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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty. ↗

— Albert Pike

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The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. ↗

— Albert Pike

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Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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The detached observer's view is one window on the world. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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