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Effective
prevention recognizes that we can guide teenage
experimentation, or we can force them to hide it
from us, but we can't stop them from trying adult
habits.
- Mike Males, Two-Fisted Double Standards,
Youth Today, June 2000, P. 54
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Few sons in a city
culture learn to fuse instinctive aggression with
the pleasure of hard physical work.
- Robert Bly, THE SIBLING SOCIETY
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Parenting: The process
of an adult's cerebral cortex controlling a child's
limbic system while teaching the child's cerebral
cortex the vital importance of controlling its own
limbic system.
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The best acquisition a
man can make is the kindness and affection of his
own family; command and fear are no longer his
weapons.
Montaigne, Essays II, Chapter 8
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A goal of the legal
system is to foster self-control by stigmatizing and
punishing its absence.
- James Q. Wilson, MORAL JUDGMENT
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