"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

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"Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is satisfied with nothing less than penetration to the furthest corners of the mind and the understanding."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"As we cast our frightened eyes around for something that is real and true and enduring, we are turning once more to this ancient Book [the Bible] that has given consolation, comfort, and salvation to millions in the centuries past."

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"Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them into the tightfitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear."

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"I was born in the age of "alas"."

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"By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class-the teenager!"

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"There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory."

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"A great problem in America is that we have an anemic and watered-down Christianity that has produced an anemic, watered-down, and spineless Christian who is not willing to stand up and be counted on every issue."

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"I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid."

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"Ask [God] to help you reflect Christ as you grow older, instead of turning sour or grumpy."

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"The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him."

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"Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is satisfied with nothing less than penetration to the furthest corners of the mind and the understanding."

"As we cast our frightened eyes around for something that is real and true and enduring, we are turning once more to this ancient Book [the Bible] that has given consolation, comfort, and salvation to millions in the centuries past."

"Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them into the tightfitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear."

"I was born in the age of "alas"."

"By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class-the teenager!"

"There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory."

"A great problem in America is that we have an anemic and watered-down Christianity that has produced an anemic, watered-down, and spineless Christian who is not willing to stand up and be counted on every issue."

"I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid."

"Ask [God] to help you reflect Christ as you grow older, instead of turning sour or grumpy."

"The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him."

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"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."

"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."

"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."

"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."

"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."

"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."

"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."