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"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."

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

"Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences."

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

"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."

"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."

"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."

"The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world."

"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."
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"Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property."

"I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get."

"I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!"

"A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo."

"I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right."

"I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there."

"Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love."
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