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That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. ↗

— 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

#even #find #intelligible #linguistics #marvelous

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

#avoid #believe #guilt #led #pays

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#eyes #local #native #participant #scene

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#coherence #disciplines #easily #facts #grant

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#correct #good #passions #weakening #why

At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#correction #done #errors #i #new

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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