"One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man."

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Source : Michael Gurian (2000). “The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men”, p.33, Penguin

Michael Gurian

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“I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.”
“The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most peopleâ€™s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.”
“I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.”
“The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.”
“Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.”
“I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying to pull someone out once they've joined.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery.”

Source : "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.
“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are filled qith cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck.”

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