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«The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.»
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
changed, ending, endings, End of time, preceded, preceding, story, timing
«Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.»
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
| About:
Goals
«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.»
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
«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.»
«Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.»
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
«The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.»
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
«The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.»
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
«There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.»
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
«No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.»
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
«Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.»
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
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