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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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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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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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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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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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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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