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Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.
Author:
John Yoo
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Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.
Author:
Diane Watson
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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
Author:
George Washington
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The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
Author:
John Walters
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The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
Author:
James Walsh
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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Author:
Voltaire
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Power without abuse loses its charm.
Author:
Paul Valery
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Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.
Author:
Bob Uecker
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The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.
Author:
Jeanne Tripplehorn
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Author:
Tacitus
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I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.
Author:
Lynn Swann
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Author:
Harriet Stowe
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So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
Author:
Pamela Stephenson
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In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.
Author:
Leigh Steinberg
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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Author:
Lincoln Steffens
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Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
Author:
Pete Stark
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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
Author:
Lamar Smith
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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.
Author:
Jim Sensenbrenner
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
Author:
John Sculley
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It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.
Author:
Bill Scott
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I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.
Author:
Jim Ryun
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By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.
Author:
Jim Ryun
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Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
Author:
Arundhati Roy
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With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
Author:
Judd Rose
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It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
Author:
Antoine Rivarol
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
Author:
Aishwarya Rai
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But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
Author:
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Author:
Richard Pryor
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Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
Author:
Mark Poster
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Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
Author:
Charles Pickering
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Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.
Author:
Charles Pickering
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
Author:
Bob Ney
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We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.
Author:
Arthur Murray
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There was mental and physical abuse in my family.
Author:
Erin Moran
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The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
Author:
James Monroe
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The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.
Author:
Alice Miller
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The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.
Author:
Gerald McRaney
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A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
Author:
Kent McCord
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Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.
Author:
Michael McCaul
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Author:
Barry McCaffrey
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Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.
Author:
Jane Mayer
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The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.
Author:
Jane Mayer
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
Author:
Ed Markey
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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Author:
Marya Mannes
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The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.
Author:
Roger Mahony
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
Author:
James Madison
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Author:
James Madison
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To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Author:
Catharine MacKinnon
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Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.
Author:
Lindsay Lohan
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Author:
Aldo Leopold
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I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
Author:
William Leahy
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Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
Author:
Rick Larsen
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Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.
Author:
Garry Kasparov
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I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.
Author:
Kato Kaelin
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Use, don't abuse.
Author:
Grace Jones
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You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.
Author:
Lynn Johnston
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Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.
Author:
William Jenkins
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The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
Author:
Bruce Jackson
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Author:
Zora Hurston
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We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.
Author:
Jane Hull
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Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
Author:
Edgar Howe
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I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.
Author:
Terrence Howard
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Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Author:
Douglas Horton
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Author:
Abbie Hoffman
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My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.
Author:
Gregory Hines
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
Author:
Salma Hayek
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With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.
Author:
Conrad Hall
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I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
Author:
Kenny Guinn
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
Author:
Alan Greenspan
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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.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
Author:
J. Fulbright
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
Author:
Dan Fogelberg
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Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.
Author:
Diane Feinstein
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I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.
Author:
Garth Ennis
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Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
Author:
Albert Ellis
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We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
Author:
David Elkind
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I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
Author:
Christopher Eccleston
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I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
Author:
Carol Duffy
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My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
Author:
Ronnie Dio
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Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.
Author:
Jim Diamond
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Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.
Author:
Morris Dees
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I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
Author:
Jamie Curtis
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More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
Author:
Elijah Cummings
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We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.
Author:
Jon Corzine
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I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it.
Author:
Pete Coors
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Author:
James Cooper
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The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
Author:
Richard Cobden
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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.
Author:
Chris Chocola
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The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Author:
George Catlin
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Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
Author:
Robert Casey
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Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
Author:
Robert Casey
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It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.
Author:
Russ Carnahan
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I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.
Author:
Blu Cantrell
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My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
Author:
Augusten Burroughs
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Author:
Warren Burger
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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
Author:
Sitting Bull
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I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile.
Author:
Steve Brown
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Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
Author:
Charles Bradlaugh
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Author:
Jorge Borges
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This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'
Author:
David Bonior
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Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
Author:
Sherwood Boehlert
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Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Author:
Matt Blunt
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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
Author:
Bjork
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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.
Author:
Carol Bellamy
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
Author:
Xavier Becerra
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To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.
Author:
Neal Barnard
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Author:
Isabel Allende
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This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.
Author:
Lucille Allard
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Author:
John Adams
