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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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Goodness Life Place Remain Willing
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 past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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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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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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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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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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Answer Finding Fragment Learning Pattern Pleasure Share
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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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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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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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Eat Food Human

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