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Letter "A" » abuse
«Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.»
Author: Abbie Hoffman
(Activist, Writer)
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abuse, arbitrary, clinical, distinctions, illegal, legal, medical
«We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.»
«Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
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abuse, decline, dose, doses, laudanum, sensibilities, whipping
«Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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abuse, height, mistaken, mysteries, prescription, prescriptions, vague
«We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
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abuse, constituted, forbearance, Human nature, indulging, notice, weary
«What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.»
«When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff»
«Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.»
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