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1 " Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed. "
― Tiffany Madison
2 " Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such a role, the historical male reputation is quite balanced. For all of their perceived wrongs, over centuries they've moved entire civilizations forward, nurtured the human quest for discovery and industry, and led humankind from inconvenient darkness to convenient modernity. Navigating the chessboard that is human existence is quite a feat, yet one rarely acknowledged in modern academia or media. And yet for those monumental achievements, I love and admire the balanced creation that is man for all his strengths and weaknesses, his gifts and his curses. I would venture to say that most wise women do. "
3 " We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away. "
4 " True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. "
5 " Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we’d be intolerable creatures. "
6 " Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity. "
7 " I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM. "
8 " If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac. "
9 " While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. "
10 " Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. "
11 " I believe the world is divided in three groups: givers, takers and the few that can balance both impulses. Giving and loving is a beautiful thing. It is the currency of compassion and kindness, it is what separates good people from the rest. And without it, the world would be a bleak place. If you are a giver, it is wise to define your boundaries because takers will take what you allow them to; all givers must learn to protect that about themselves or eventually, there is nothing left to give. "
12 " It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet. "
― Tiffany Madison , Black and White
13 " As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel. "
14 " It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians. "
15 " Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot. "
16 " We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both. "
17 " No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. "
18 " Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that. "
19 " [On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature. "
20 " Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it. "
