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It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which indi

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. – Gregory Bateson

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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. – Gregory Bateson

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Education
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Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. – Gregory Bateson

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Math
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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson

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Learning
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I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted its the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. – Muhammad Yunus

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Future

Life is hopefully long, so I dont know what the future will bring. – Bethenny Frankel

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Future

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity – in one word, our future. – Francois Hollande

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Future

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. – Walter Savage Landor

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Future

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Life goes on, and Im moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers. – Susan Lucci

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You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like the shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. – Johnson

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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. – John Adams

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