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"Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D."
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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."

"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."

"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."

"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."

"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."

"I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief."

"For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal."
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"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"

"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."

"The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New."

"But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc."

"The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual."

"I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening."

"I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot."

"I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28."
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