The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONWorlds 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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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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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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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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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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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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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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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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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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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