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Mary Catherine Bateson

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

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

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"Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block."

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"Serve the Lord, do not look for excuses."

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"Be faithful anywhere you find yourself."

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"I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that."

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"If you are committed to your highest potential, existence will support you with new energies."

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"Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are."

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"Commitment is a thing of choice, not a thing of force."

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"Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul."

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"Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?""Yes, sir.""A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?""Yes, sir.""Truly, Jane?""Most truly, sir."

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"God requires us to give ourselves over fully to serving Him and to do everything to the full."

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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."
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"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."
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"Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten."
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"Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food."
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"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."
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"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."
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"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."
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