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"We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations."
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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."

"Allow your daily small acts of kindness to degenerate into a lifetime of human excellence."

"He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to."

"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."

"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."

"(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."
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"Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated."


"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."


"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language."


"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."


"We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations."
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