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"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it."
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"I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like they're at fault for you hurting them . . . I realized that was exactly what I'd done to Carly. That hangs over me every day."
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"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."
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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."
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"The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I'm sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my mother spoke up at the wrong time on purpose. As often as we endured my father's abuse, she had to be aware that it wouldn't save me from a beating but simply earn her one as well. Or was it that sharing my fate made her feel less guilt-ridden about those things that happened to me?"
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"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
Habit
"Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech."
Thought
"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."
Life
"To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes."
Reflection
"Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors."
Actor
"Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent."
Society
"The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it."
People
"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
Gold
"It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit."
Reflection
"Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity."
Fame
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