“Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.” PeopleWantDesireChoicesCultureSexInfluenceMediaInformationSafeComputerFlowInvestmentConsumersCorporateRangeAcquisitionNuanceConvergence Book:Underworld: Picador Classic Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?” WellsWisdomChoicesPoliticsEnjoyEconomySecurityMaterialsDignityClaimsWell BeingRangeLiberalismDependentLeisureOwnershipAutonomyMore To Life Author:Louis O. Kelso
“our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we find ourselves inventing our lives as we go along, improvising in an effort to take advantage of the bewildering range of choices that we face.” TodayFacesChoicesEffortOur LivesMajorsAdvantageVarietyConsumersRangeTrendsEmphasisMarketplaceInventingImprovisingDomestic Life Author:Sally Helgesen
“[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.” MenWorldChoicesLibertyWiseCitizensDegreesMen And WomenRangeStationsSexismWise Women Book:The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes Source: The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes
“It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching, of training, of background and belief to enjoy the company of each other in many ways. Indeed, a diversity of friendships is one of life's real enrichments. To learn of the goodness of those who are unlike-their worth, their sincerity, their good hearts, their good minds, their good company-is rich and rewarding. It is wonderful to have a wide range of choice friends who can be counted on, friends who can be enjoyed and loved and trusted. Such is the meaning of friendship.” PeopleWayMindHeartTwoRealChoicesBeliefEnjoyDifferencesCompanyOpinionRichWonderfulTeachingHabitGoodnessDiversityTrainingWideBackgroundsEnjoyedRangeSincerityTrustedPreferenceGood HeartGood CompanyEnrichmentGood MindMeaning Of Friendship Author:Richard L. Evans