"Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key."

-- Lewis Mumford

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“As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.”
“Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted.”
“Having a partner who is your wife traveling with you can be great. We each have our roles in the work and then can help each other out on the emotional front when things get stressful, which they are.”
“Movement for me is meditation.”
“It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes to our shores, and thereby create desire and with it shame for that desire. Indeed, it is worse still than that: Precisely because we worry publicly that we are insensitive, our enemies scoff privately that we in fact are too sensitive - what we think is liberality and magnanimity they see as license and decadence. If we don't have confidence in who we are, why should they?”
“You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.”
“In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.”

Source : "Sir Richard Mottram" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2002.
“The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good.”

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