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

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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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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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Capacity Commitment Democracy Essential
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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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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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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 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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