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I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids. ~Kyle, "Death," original airdate 17 September 1997, written by Trey Parker & Matt Stone



Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. ~Jeff Pesis



In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~Author Unknown



It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. ~Carl T. Rowan



Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it. ~Soren Kierkegaard, Time, 16 December 1946



Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. ~William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference, 1838



One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. ~Shirley Ann Grau



People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893



You know you live in Phoenix when the cold-water faucet is hotter than the hot-water faucet. ~Author Unknown



It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead. ~E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest



The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. ~Madeleine L'Engle



She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 12



Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ~Mark Twain



One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. ~Lord Byron



When you take flight by skipping, your baggage gets left behind - there's no room to carry on worries. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Only from the heart can you touch the sky. ~Rumi



When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ~Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1901, translated by Alfred Sutro



How can something bother you if you won't let it? ~Terri Guillemets



My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. ~Ellen DeGeneres



In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens