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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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"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."

"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."

"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse."

"But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them."

"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."

"I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse."

"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."

"I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid."
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"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."

"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."

"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."

"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."

"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason."

"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."

"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."
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