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There is a golden opportunity here for Christian men to assume a national leadership role by engaging in conversation with women.

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• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Men
  • Lie
  • Data

• As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Men
  • Young
  • Leaving

• I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Women
  • Feel

• There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • World
  • Women
  • Power

• I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Different
  • Women
  • Character

• People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.

  

  Weili Dai
  • World
  • Believe
  • Women

• If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • You
  • Team
  • Leadership

• These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Mind

• I think the essence of romantic love for women is being the special one, and that's an absolutely terrible trap. If the lover treats certain other people badly, you will be treated that badly, too.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • People
  • Women
  • Romantic

• Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Work
  • Women
  • Business

• I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

  

  Joan Allen
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never tested the implants in breast tissue and that they received decades of complaints from women. It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to scream!

  

  Emily Martin
  • Men
  • Women

• We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Men
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Time
  • Country
  • American

• Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

  

  James Longstreet
  • Men
  • Why

• If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.

  

  will.i.am
  • People
  • Men
  • Country

• I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Important
  • Trying

• As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Children
  • Book
  • Kids

• There is a golden opportunity here for Christian men to assume a national leadership role by engaging in conversation with women.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Men
  • Women
  • Opportunity