"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."

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Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2004). “Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery”

Mary Catherine Bateson

#Educational Quotes #Memorable Quotes #Willing Quotes

“Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.”
“I didn't die nor win.”
“After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.”
“Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart.”
“He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.”
“Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.”

Source : "O'Reilly Open Source Conference: Day 3". www.apacheweek.com. July 26, 2002.
“A lot of the audience know that magic tricks are largely sleight of hand stuff, but they're intrigued by the mind stuff. They understand some of the principles behind it . . . but they're confused by how it's all mixed together onstage, which is good for me.”
“Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him.Â That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.”

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