Gregory Bateson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 9, 1904 - July 4, 1980

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In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.

Jim Doyle

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I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and then realising that it's all wrong. It's demoralising, because you don't get the time back.

John Lanchester

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Women take so long to get ready, but when they get out of the bathroom, they look smokin' hot. That's the struggle of men throughout history, waiting by the door. The wait is so worth it. Always.

Andy Grammer

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To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

Stanley Hauerwas

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If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.

Stevie Nicks

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My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'

Steven Wright

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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudner

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One of the best things that can happen to any cause, to any people, is to have Bill Clinton as its advocate. That is how needy and neglected causes have become global initiatives.

Mitt Romney

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I don't walk barefoot. When I see a girl barefoot in the street... I'm like, 'Really?' But obviously, I can't judge someone for that first impression.

Juan Pablo Galavis

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One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

Jason Katims

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Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

Concha Buika

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I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.

Colin Trevorrow

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