If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
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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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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.
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If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
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