"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."

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Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

Kenneth Lee Pike

#Perspective Quotes #Sound Quotes #Language Quotes

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”

Source : Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.197, Penguin
“When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.”
“You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.”
“Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.”
“Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.”
“When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.”
“... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime significantly, many experts concluded. Those who had meaningful economic and social opportunities were unlikely to commit crimes regardless of the penalty, while those who went to prison were far more likely to commit crimes again in the future.”
“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

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