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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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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"Give light and people will find the way."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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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."
Behavior
"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation."
Language
"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."
Life
"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."
Universe
"If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience."
Conscience
"God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis."
God
"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?"
Language
"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."
Science
"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
Identity
"Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions."
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