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To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.
Francis Schaeffer
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Francis Schaeffer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: May 15
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Francis August Schaeffer
Francis A. Schaeffer
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