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Kenneth L. Pike Quotes

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Kenneth L. Pike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 9, 1912 - December 31, 2000

Topics

Success Failure May Inward Outward

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Life Live Death Die Knowing Outcome

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

History I Am Physician Interested Am

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Purpose World Differences Human Safe

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

Marriage Blessed May Vows

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Child Someone You Go Know Want

Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.

Work Purpose Value Challenges Goal

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

Loudon Wainwright III

Father Mother Parents Big Going Our

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Business Age Laugh Strangers Career

I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

Family Growing Up Texas Loved Grow

Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in run-down houses and apartment buildings, and on the corners of every major city. Marriage equality doesn't help them; and the potential loss of momentum for trans/queer rights after this win could well hurt them.

Chelsea Manning

Marriage Live Equality People City

Perhaps you could say that mountaineers are driven by ego or our competitiveness, but there's a lot more to it than that. Whether it's a huge face in the Himalaya or some crag in the woods behind your house, exploration offers us a unique perspective on the world that you can't really find anywhere else.

Perspective World Ego Woods Face

Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.

Cool Internet Creating Sharing Stuff

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