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"An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived."
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"God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints."

"Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised."

"I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you."

"When bridges seem to give way, we fall into Christ's safe arms, true bridge, and not into hopelessness. It is safe to trust! We can be too weak to go on because His strength is made perfect in utter brokenness and nail-pierced hands help up. It is safe to trust! We can give thanks in everything because there's a good God leading, working all things into good. It is safe to trust! The million bridges behind us may seem flattened to the earthly eye, but all bridges ultimately hold, fastened by nails. It is safe to trust."

"A drop of faith can create a hailstorm of success."

"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
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"We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions."

"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself."

"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."

"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on."

"Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples."

"I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding.""

"There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument."

"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."
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