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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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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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As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. … We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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