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"The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it."

"So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me."

"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."

"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective."

"Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ."

"This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge."

"That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another."

"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."

"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?"
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