"There are few things as toxic as a……" — Mary Catherine Bateson
"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."
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29 Quotes by 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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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which…
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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic,…
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual…
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few…
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As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you…
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or…
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple…
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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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