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 BATESONWhat 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 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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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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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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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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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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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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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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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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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