Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.
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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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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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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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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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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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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