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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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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Change Family Metaphor Understand
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
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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Greatness Imagination Live Tradition
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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Ability Color Culture Vision World
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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Goodness Life Place Remain Willing
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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Character Entertainment Experience Life Positive Repetition
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Forget Human Natural Sacred Society
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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Commitment Decision Life Morning People Pieces Yourself
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Fear Forget Goodness Philosophy Teacher Wisdom
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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Clarity Early Loss Moments
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Bad Metaphor Toxic Yourself
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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Criticism Growth Mistake Oneself Question Regret
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Continue Fluid Live Reality
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Definition Problem Solution
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Philosophy Retrospect Visible
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Known Learning Willing

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