If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
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It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
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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.
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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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