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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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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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Care Management Medicine Surprise Training
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
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Human Learning Metaphor Species Story Thinking
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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Care Design Human Learning Need Society Work
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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Conflict Desperate Element Improvisation Reflection
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Constant Illusion
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Known Learning 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
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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Children Finding Togetherness World
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Capacity Commitment Democracy Essential
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Eat Food Human
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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Death End Meaning Story Time
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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Affirmation Education Existing Member Tradition
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

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