"Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with"
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"The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked."
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"The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world."
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"If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system."
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"I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it."
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"Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur."
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"Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is."
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"In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly."
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"It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world."
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"There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism."
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"Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?"
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"To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable."
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"The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive."
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"I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy."
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"For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when you're a kid just screaming your face off, you're processing anger; you're processing all the things that happened to you, whether it's mistrust or confusion, whether you've gone through abuse."
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"There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection."
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"...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them."
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"Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse."
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"Never judge a philosophy by its abuse."
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"I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!"
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