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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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"Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."
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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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"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."
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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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"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."
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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."
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"Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker."
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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."
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"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
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"Crawling up into daddy's lapwhen dad was stillDADDYnodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heartLISTENINGto the thump...thumpsomewhere beneath muscleand breastbone I remember his armstheir sublimeENCIRCLINGand the shawdow of his voice"I love you, little girl.Put away your bad dreams.Daddy's here"I put them away, Until Daddy became my nightmare that one that cameHOMEfrom work everyday and insteadof picking me up, chased me farfaraway."
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"I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society."
Power
"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason."
People
"By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth."
Age
"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."
Money
"It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere."
Sincerity
"In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude."
Attitude
"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."
Man
"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."
Self-Awareness
"All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
Love
"Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent."
Talent
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