"What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse."
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"The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency."
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"When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up."
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"I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals."
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"I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse."
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"Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation."
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"That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it."
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"And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse."
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"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life."
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"We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions."
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"God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him."
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"So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happens to be combining. You talk about virgin territory - the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it. Nobody is doing anything with it."
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"We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop."
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"Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime."
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"Most women who are harassed don't come forward, they don't complain because they're skeptical of the process, or they don't think anything is going to come of it if they are found to have been harassed. We know from some very public cases that sexual assault isn't always punished even by the courts in the way that they should be. So, we have got to figure out, how are we going to embed women's experiences in the processes, so that they trust the processes, that there are fair investigations that get to the truth, and then there is appropriate punishment when abuse occurs?"
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"Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself."
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"You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear."
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"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
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"None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing"
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"Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay."
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