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"Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions."
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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"
"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."
"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."
"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."
"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."
"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."
"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
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"Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language."
"The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt."
"If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience."
"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?"
"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."
"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation."
"With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts."
"The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window."
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