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One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature. ↗

— Albert Pike

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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. ↗

— Albert Pike

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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. ↗

— Albert Pike

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A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. ↗

— Albert Pike

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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. ↗

— Kenneth L. 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

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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