What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONFluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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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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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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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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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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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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