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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

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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Death End Meaning Story Time
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Eat Food Human
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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Demand Give Share
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Forget Human Natural Sacred Society
In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Constant Illusion
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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Greatness Imagination Live Tradition
A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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Care Management Medicine Surprise Training
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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Character Entertainment Experience Life Positive Repetition
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Continue Fluid Live Reality
Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.
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Answer Finding Fragment Learning Pattern Pleasure Share
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Definition Problem Solution
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Bad Metaphor Toxic Yourself
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Creativity Establishment Improvisation Way
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Philosophy Retrospect Visible
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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Address Affirmation Conflict Development Early Finding Ourselves
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Capacity Commitment Democracy Essential

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