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"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves."

Joseph Priestley, English Scientist

Society, War, Politicians, Teenagers

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"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves."

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"So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.' I smiled. 'You can't go disappearing on everybody like this, Hazel. You miss too much."

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"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

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"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

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"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

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"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."

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"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

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"Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you."

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"A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas."

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"Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both."

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"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us."

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"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves."

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