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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. ↗

— Orlando A. Battista

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A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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

— 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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I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody. ↗

— Max Baucus

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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