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If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Kenneth L. Pike
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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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If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
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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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Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
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Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.
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The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.
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The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
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Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
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The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
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We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?
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So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.
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