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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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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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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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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. ↗

— 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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Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. ↗

— 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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