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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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"The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about."
"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?"
"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."
"The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world."
"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."
"The problem with depicting abusers as full-time monsters is that when a person is actually experiencing abuse in their own life, they'll think 'oh but he's the sweetest guy most of the time so he can't be an abuser ' or 'but he's not ALWAYS horrible, he's usually amazing, so he's not an abuser', and they'll make the mistake of thinking they mustn't really be being abused when they actually are."
"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."
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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."
"By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth."
"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."
"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."
"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."
"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
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