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Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

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About Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 - 4 July 1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some of his most noted writings are to be found in his books, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1980). Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred, published posthumously in 1987, was co-authored by his daughter Mary Catherine Bateson.

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