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I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

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Littles, Mystery, Infinite

"Bridges to Heaven: How Well-Known Seekers Define and Deepen Their Connection with God". Book by Jonathan Robinson, 1994.

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All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

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Dad, War, Son

"The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

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Men, Complaining, Violence

"Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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Sex role training becomes divorce training.

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Sex, Divorce, Training

"Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.

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Sex, Taken, Hero

"Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.

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Men, Feelings, Together

"Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most resistant audiences I ever faced in the process of doing corporate workshops on equality in the workplace were not male executives - they were the wives of male executives. As long as her income came from her husband, she was not feeling generous when affirmative action let another woman have a head start vying for her husband's (her) income.

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New York, Husband, Years

"The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.

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Teenage, Mind, Female

Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.

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Military, Men, Research

Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

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Children, Growing Up, Rights

"Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: 'Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap.' They did not say: 'Men Face Large Health Care Gap.' Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men's lives with the saving of the rest of us, and this association leads us to carry in our unconscious an incentive not to care about men living longer.

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Country, Sacrifice, Men

"The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.

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Gratitude, Humility, Feelings

"Bridges to Heaven: How Well-Known Seekers Define and Deepen Their Connection with God". Book by Jonathan Robinson, 1994.

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So while in men's magazines success is a power tool to get sex and love, and therefore the look of success is crucial, in women's magazines love and sex are power tools to get success and therefore both the look of love and the sexual tease/promise are crucial.

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Sex, Men, Promise

"Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.

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Weed, Teaching, Princess

Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). The opposite is true for women: Women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power (the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job).

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Jobs, Children, Men

Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.24, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.

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Sex, Men, Should Have

"Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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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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Daughter, Men, Wife

"Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.

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Divorce, Sacrifice, Reality

"Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women and only women it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit.

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Men, Numbers, Safety

"The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.

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Mom, Children, Father

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Women's greater social desirability and beauty power afford opportunities for creating both measurable and invisible income. While the opportunities are available to almost all women and some men, they are available in abundance to the genetic celebrity ... a woman so beautiful that men do more than look and talk--they follow her.

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Beautiful, Opportunity, Men

Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.191, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they'd be laughed out of the company.

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Men, Asking, Unfair

"The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.

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Men, Feet, Uganda

"The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.

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Mother, Men, Criminals

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In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.

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Girl, Sex, Believe

"Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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