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.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
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.
