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"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."

"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."

"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."

"If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office."

"You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment."

"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."

"I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is."

"You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands."

"I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world."
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"Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language."

"If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience."

"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."

"The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window."

"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."

"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us."
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