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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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"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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"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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"Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you."
Forget
"To hit bottom is to fall from grace."
Grace
"Growing old is not growing up."
Growing up
"The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love."
Love
"Death is feared as birth is forgotten."
Death
"Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought."
Thought
"If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever."
Love
"Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think."
Life
"Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age."
Age
"We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon."
Life
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