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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 do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Eat Food Human
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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Conflict Desperate Element Improvisation Reflection
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Known Learning Willing
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
Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
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Dance Important Improvisation Join Learning Ourselves Responsible Step
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
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Philosophy Retrospect Visible
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
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Capacity Commitment Democracy Essential
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Creativity Establishment Improvisation Way
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
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
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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Clarity Early Loss Moments
In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Constant Illusion

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