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

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Kenneth Lee Pike

#Language Quotes #Revelations Quotes #Structure Quotes

“Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.”
“It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.”
“The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim Morrison.”
“When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took seriously the idea that all men are created equal has an idea so transformed the material conditions of life, the expectations of the race.”

Source : David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin
“Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.”
“I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.”
“The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?”

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