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

Mary Catherine Bateson

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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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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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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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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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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Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
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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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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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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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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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