A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONThe past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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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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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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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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A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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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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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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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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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