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If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.


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With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.



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Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.



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It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.



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The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.



When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.



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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, which so often have been in conflict.



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Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.



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Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.



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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.



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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.





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Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.



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Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.



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I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.




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