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The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Abuse Against Aids Budgets Bureaucracy Each Everything Fought Government Illiteracy Legislation Necessary Offices Officials Poverty Real Recent Recent Years Something Tell Terrorism Those U.s. Government Wars Years You

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And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.

~Bruce Nauman

Topics: About Abuse Dirty Down Father Find Get Ground He His How Hurt Keeping Letting Lie Put Said Some Them Things Thoughts Tools Used Where Your

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I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Abuse Action Affirmative Affirmative Action Almost Benefit Had Ideals Immediately Middle-Class Regard Started System White Women Wonderful

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A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

~Carles Puigdemont

Topics: About Abuse Angry Been Committed Democratic Government Lot People Spanish

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I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: Abuse Anxiety Dangers Different Now Our Planet Resources Think I Think

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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.

~Carol Bellamy

Topics: Abuse Also Child Child Labor Children Ensure Exploitation Export Industry Informal Invisible Labor Labour Leaves More Must Open Public Scrutiny Sector Thus Which While

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Sometimes a manuscript is like bread dough. You have to abuse it.

~Carolyn Chute

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While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

~Carre Otis

Topics: Abuse Across Affects Culture Differences Environment Globe Impact Language Many Oppression Our Similarities Undeniable Us While Women

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Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

~Cat Stevens

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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.

~Catharine Mackinnon

Topics: Abuse Defined Definition Done Group Means Member Part Prisoner Reduced Rules Seen Status Whom You Your

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