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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams
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Abuse of power comes as no surprise
Jenny Holzer
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Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.
Louise Mensch
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Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.
Chris Witty
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Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
E. W. Howe
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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
Samuel Johnson
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Abuse is an indirect species of homage.
William Hazlitt
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
Inga Muscio
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Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.
Aldous Huxley
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Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.
Clint Eastwood
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
Joseph Joubert
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Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.
Bell Hooks
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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.
Jane D. Hull
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It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
William Davenant
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The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.
Vandana Shiva
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There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
John Bolton
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.
Jane Porter
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Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?
William Hazlitt
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
Vince Cable
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The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.
John Denham
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For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter their style is infused with gall and wormwood mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.
Jean de la Bruyere
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We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
William J. Clinton
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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!
Vincent de Paul
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The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.
Jean-Georges Noverre
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