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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.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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
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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Ability Color Culture Vision World
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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Address Affirmation Conflict Development Early Finding Ourselves
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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Greatness Imagination Live Tradition
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Bad Metaphor Toxic Yourself
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Human Learning Metaphor Species Story Thinking
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Fear Forget Goodness Philosophy Teacher Wisdom
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.
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Character Entertainment Experience Life Positive Repetition
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Change Family Metaphor Understand
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
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
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 timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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Death End Meaning Story Time
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Eat Food Human
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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Demand Give Share
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Definition Problem Solution

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