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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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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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The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

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God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

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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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There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

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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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The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

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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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I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: June 9th, 1912

Died: December 31st, 2000

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