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

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Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1958). “Language and Life”

Kenneth Lee Pike

#Eye Quotes #Views Quotes #Different Quotes

“I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.”
“The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.”
“I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have”
“We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.”

Source : Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.88, Faber & Faber
“One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.”
“The taxpayers deserve accountability.”
“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
“The public library is where place and possibility meet.”

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