"Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions."
-Kenneth L. Pike
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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.“
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"Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results."
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"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."
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"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."
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"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."
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"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."
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