"People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse."
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"I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust."
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"For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent."
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"A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families."
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"I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life."
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"While you were four, you didn't know anything other than being terrified and scared; you're not four any longer. Now [as an adult] you have to make a choice and recognize that even the abuse that came into your life offers you an opportunity to transcend it, to become a better person and even more significantly, to help someone else not go through what you did."
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"I always found myself trying to cover the mental anguish and the torment and the abuse that I was dealing with. That made me always question my beauty, my intelligence, and a lot of other things about myself."
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"Applause is the beginning of abuse"
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"The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration."
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"Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal."
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"The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education."
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"Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and deliberations appear credible. They allow them to bamboozle the public because computer models are a complete mystery to most people."
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"To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system."
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"Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster."
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"As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did."
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"I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse."
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"The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness."
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"It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes."
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"Rather than asking architecture to be more interdisciplinary - a perennial issue within the discipline - I am suggesting that other disciplines might exploit the powers of architecture and urbanism. When addressing urgent situations, whether it's the depletion of the rainforest or abuse of labor, well-meaning people are working with tools, like standards, that seem like very blunt instruments. I am suggesting that spatial variables that are underexploited in governance might add to that repertoire."
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"Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired."
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