He delighted family and friends for nearly eight decades with his warmth, intelligence, charm, passion, wit, humor, erudition, many talents, zest for life and, above all, his boundless capacity for love.
Make a leadership gift that is commensurate with your philanthropic capacity and passion for Duke; with the minimum gift being at the Washington Duke Society level.
"He possessed a singular combination of fiery imagination, capacity for meticulous observation, moral passion and intellectual gaiety," wrote Isaiah Berlin, "with a talent for writing in a manner at once pungent and distinguished, ironical and incandescent, brilliantly entertaining and at times rising to great nobility of feeling and expression".
He exemplifies the blend of inspiration, warmth, insight, fierce determination, passion and capacity for questioning that characterizes the movement and makes it tick.
In addition to extensive experience in space missions, what has brought Lewicki to where he is now is his enduring passion and capacity for making the most of learning opportunities.
Philosophers have frequently opposed our capacity for rational thought to "the passions", or the emotions, and many have argued that living a good human life involves controlling, subduing, or even eliminating one's emotions and appetites.
We need to inject a dose of cold hard analytic facts about the brain into this discussion so we can figure out how to best capitalize on the native (and remarkable) capacities for reason and passion, analysis and synthesis, detail and context, that co-exist as a result of the exquisitely wired networks distributed within and between the hemispheres of our brains.
"That is why, genuinely for me, whatever assessment Jeremy and his team made of my capacity here, my passion for getting people involved and for doing it in a very different way is out there.
