“Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.” KnowsBodySpiritPleasureMaterialsDutyStriveProfitNakedDeceitAffectedOathLiberatedConstancyEros Book:Adam & Eve and the City: Selected Non Fiction Source: Adam & Eve and the City: Selected Non Fiction
“If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival. This is Congress's duty.” IfsMayEndsBodyNationsPresidentDealsSuccessfulMaterialsDutySurvivalCongressMysteriousCrucialPassagesConvoluted Author:Jon Stewart
“I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.” ThinkingPersonsTurnsMaterialsDutyIntellectualAgreeDisagreeFree Society Author:Tom Clancy
“I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.” WorldYearsParentFourSecurityCollegeMaterialsDutyUnderstoodAbsurdExcessFour YearsGraduatesFulfillingAbstractionTediousCollege Graduates Author:Jon Krakauer