Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONAs you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring.
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