What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONA suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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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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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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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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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring.
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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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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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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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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