The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
Mary Catherine Bateson
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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“It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.”
“When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.”
| Max Baucus, Politician (1941) |
| Annie Jump Cannon, Scientist (1863) |
| Elliott Carter, Composer (1908) |
| Mos Def, Musician (1973) |
| Teri Garr, Actress (1944) |
| Harold Hamm, Businessman (1945) |
| Jim Harrison, Writer (1937) |
| Jermaine Jackson, Musician (1954) |
| Stu Jackson, Coach (1955) |
| John F. Kerry, Politician (1943) |
| Bob Bartlett, Politician (1968) |
| James J. Gibson, Psychologist (1979) |
| Christian Lous Lange, Politician (1938) |