The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONThe family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. … We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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 family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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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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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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