Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONCaring 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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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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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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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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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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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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 capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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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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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.
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