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No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.
Gregory Bateson
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Gregory Bateson
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 9
Died: 1980
Died: July 4
Anthropologist
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Grantchester
Cambridgeshire
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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
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Information is a difference that makes a difference.
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Multiple descriptions are better than one.
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People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.
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We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components, or Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course.
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A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.
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The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.
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