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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

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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Bad Metaphor Toxic Yourself
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
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Believe Learning Myself Talk Understand
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Creativity Establishment Improvisation Way
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
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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Goodness Life Place Remain Willing
As 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.
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Commitment Decision Life Morning People Pieces Yourself
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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Affirmation Education Existing Member Tradition
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Continue Fluid Live Reality
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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Children Finding Togetherness World
In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Constant Illusion
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Forget Human Natural Sacred Society
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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Death Parents Realization Return Time
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Human Learning Metaphor Species Story Thinking
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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Activity Artistic Community Fly Freedom Provide

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