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Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

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Will is the dynamic soul-force. ↗

— Albert Pike

#will

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

#contexts #discourse #fruitful #normal #requires

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

#observer #view #window #world

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

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#change #could #functions #human #meanings

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

— Zebulon Pike

#correct #good #passions #weakening #why

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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