"Language is a tool adequate to provide any……" — Kenneth Lee Pike
"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation."
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30 Quotes by Kenneth Lee Pike
Kenneth Lee Pike has 30 quotes on this site.
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Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity,…
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Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it…
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Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so,…
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Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of…
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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some…
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
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The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led…
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All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be…
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Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by…
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Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
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Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
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The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
— Norman Borlaug
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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
— Norman Borlaug
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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so…
— Warren Buffett
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War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
— Smedley Butler
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A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children…
— Margaret Chan
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I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They…
— Julia Child
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The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate…
— Hillary Clinton
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