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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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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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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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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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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 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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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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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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