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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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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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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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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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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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