Guess what? There's more and more compelling evidence that if you feed a child a steady diet of Marilyn Manson and violent video games and hyper-sexual imagery... something needs to be done.


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You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
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Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
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Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.
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Whatever doesn't kill you, it's gonna leave a scar
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The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
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Clearly, something more needs to be done. The hog population down there is exploding.
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What we can conclude is more work needs to be done.
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When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
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FAITH BALDWIN
Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
STANLEY BALDWIN
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in...
JAMES BALDWIN
The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to e...
JAMES BALDWIN
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES BALDWIN
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
JAMES BALDWIN
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on...
JAMES BALDWIN
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other his...
JAMES BALDWIN
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wre...
JAMES BALDWIN
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience...
JAMES BALDWIN
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
STANLEY BALDWIN
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity f...
MONICA BALDWIN
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world...
JAMES BALDWIN
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the pa...
JAMES BALDWIN
Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
JAMES BALDWIN
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called ...
ROGER BALDWIN
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting...
JAMES BALDWIN
The future is... black.
JAMES BALDWIN
Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom...
JAMES BALDWIN
Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. Peop...
JAMES BALDWIN
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no on...
JAMES BALDWIN
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES BALDWIN
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
JAMES BALDWIN
Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
JAMES BALDWIN
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
JAMES BALDWIN
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is...
JAMES BALDWIN
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES BALDWIN
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, ...
JAMES BALDWIN
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo...
JAMES BALDWIN
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion...
JAMES BALDWIN
There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one ou...
JAMES BALDWIN
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES BALDWIN
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel...
JAMES BALDWIN
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s...
JAMES BALDWIN
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN
People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si...
JAMES BALDWIN
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ...
JAMES BALDWIN
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc...
JAMES BALDWIN
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit...
JAMES BALDWIN
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ...
JAMES BALDWIN
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
JAMES BALDWIN
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and stre...
JAMES BALDWIN
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocu...
JAMES BALDWIN