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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.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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 do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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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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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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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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Goodness Life Place Remain Willing
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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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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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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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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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 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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