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Tag Name "Misused" (41)

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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer
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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
John Milton
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Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.
Joyce Meyer
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Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.
Libba Bray
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[Hillary Clinton] never misused [ information that the Central Intelligence Agency has]. She always protected it. I would trust her with the crown jewels of the United States government. And, more importantly, I would trust her with the future security of the country and the future security of my kids.
Michael Morell
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In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.
Pete Seeger
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Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
Phyllis McGinley
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Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.
Richard Rohr
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Jihad is misused by fundamentalists. The Quranic meaning is not meant for war at all, in the sense of killing.
Asghar Ali Engineer
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Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word
Rooney Mara
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Science is not perfect. It's often misused it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.
Carl Sagan
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud
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The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history
Christopher Wood
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
William Blake
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The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.
Cliff Stearns
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It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.
Edward Snowden
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In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.
Ernst Hanfstaengl
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Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.
Gary Zukav
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Hans Kung
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There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.
Jim Leach
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As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.
Jonas Mekas
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
Larry Flynt
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