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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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

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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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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