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“The best parent is both parents” means mommy is no substitute for daddy, money is no substitute for daddy, and another man is no substitute for daddy.

— Warren Farrell The Boy Crisis (2018)

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The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.

Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)

Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

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Sensitivity to the death and suffering of boys and men is in competition with our survival instinct.

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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

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A key measure of emotional intelligence is knowing that every virtue taken to its extreme becomes a vice.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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