"Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society."

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Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (1990). “Composing a Life”, Plume

Mary Catherine Bateson

#Memorable Quotes #Caring Quotes #Design Quotes

“As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.”
“Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.”
“When I was able to get home it first hit me that you had left and I couldn't do anything about it. Every day before that an evening with you was waiting for me after school, now no more, strange feeling. I had grown too accustomed to your warmth. That is also a danger. At home I looked at the notebooks that you had bought and I got the stupidest surge of hope that I'd find something of you, something especially for meant for me. I would so much like to have something of you that I could always keep by me, that nobody else would notice.”
“The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.”

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“I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest.”
“We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.”
“In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.”
“Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.”

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