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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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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 human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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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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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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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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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
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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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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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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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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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