Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.
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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!
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If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
