Baker, Maureen.Choices and Constraints in Family Life. — 2nd. — Don Mills, Ontario : Oxford University Press, 2010. — P. 1. — «In this book, I argue that intimate relationships are certainly influenced by our personal preferences but to a large extent our 'choices' are shaped by family circumstances and events in the wider society ...». — ISBN 978-0-19-543159-9.
Scott, Simeon. Contradictions of capitalism in health and fitness leisure // Handbook on the Economics of Leisure / Cameron. — Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011. — P. 155. — «... we turn to the writings of anthropologists and archaeologists, the majority of whom believe that our earliest ancestors were well fed and healthy. They obtained their subsistence by hunting and gathering, they had a relatively egalitarian ethic and more leisure time available to them than people in any subsequent mode of production.». — ISBN 978-0857930569.
Compare: Schleifer, James T.5: How Does Democracy Threaten Liberty? // The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America. — Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012. — P. 82. — «For Tocqueville individualism meant the habit of living isolated from your fellows, of not concerning yourself with any public affairs, and of abandoning those matters to the care of the government as the only clearly visible representative of common interests. Like democratic materialism, democratic individualism led to the death of civic life and opened the door to any despotic power that would assume responsibility for shared interests. ... We need to recognize that ... Tocqueville ... treated the United States as something of an exception. He had described the American republic as shielded from the worst effects of democratic materialism; in his analysis, it was also insulated from individualism.». — ISBN 978-0226737058.
Lakoff, George.Contemporary theory of metaphor // Metaphor and Thought / Ortony. — Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1979. — P. 223–224. — «Long-term, purposeful activities are journeys. ... In our culture, life is assumed to be purposeful, that is, we are expected to have goals in life. In the event[-]structure metaphor, purposes are destinations and purposeful action is self-propelled motion towards a destination. A purposeful life is a journey. Goals in life are destinations on the journey. ... Choosing a means to achieve a goal is choosing a path to destination. ... [T]he love is a journey metaphor inherits the structure of the life is a journey metaphor. ... a career is a journey.». — ISBN 978-0521405614.
Sorley, W. R.The Moral Life: And Moral Worth. — 3rd. — Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1911. — P. 26. — «The virtues of personal life are to be regarded both from the side of control and from the side of culture. On the one hand the varied impulses and desires have to be regulated so as not to interfere with the realisation of the moral ideal.». — ISBN 978-1107605879.
