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Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. ↗