"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.“


-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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