"Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred."

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Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.57, Grove Press

Mary Catherine Bateson

#Sacred Quotes #Natural Quotes #Conventions Quotes

“If anything runs deeper than a mathematicianâ€™s love of variables, itâ€™s a scientistâ€™s love of constants.”
“we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.”
“I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.”
“This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful.”
“I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more and more into ceramics, I thought, life drawing doesn't have anything to do with ceramics.”
“There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.”
“Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.”
“What do you want to do with me?" she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble." He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. "My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all." By drugging me?" (Molly and Arch)”

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