"It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are."

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Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.251, A&C Black

Alasdair MacIntyre

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“The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it”
“Men build society and society builds men.”
“There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.”
“I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.”

Source : Interview with Kevin Holtsberry, collectedmiscellany.com. November 11, 2003.
“I can't go along with all that shit about having to give everything up. I'd always say to them in the clinic I'm still going to have a Guinness, I'm still going to have a glass of wine. They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.”

Source : "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.
“A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.”
“You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.”

Source : "Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary of a Surgery". www.nytimes.com. March 24, 2015.
“The law exists to protect the weak from the strong.”

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