Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONA suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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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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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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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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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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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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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