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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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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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When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
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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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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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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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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
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