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There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.
Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.
We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
Is discipline (both mental and physical) in place of coddling truly child abuse? I don't know, but it sure as hell is effective.
Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.
There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.
I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.
As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did.
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
We must simply do every single thing in our power to protect our children from abuse and help them live healthy, prosperous lives.
I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.
I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.
The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete.
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.
They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.
If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!
I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.
The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
We must keep the pressure on Congress to curb Obama's continued abuse of power. We must always expose that abuse to fellow citizens.
Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.
What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.
Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.
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.
We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.
I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections with people.
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.
I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.
Criticism of the Middle East should not be directed only at Saudi Arabia. Human rights abuses are happening throughout the Arab world.
Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.
The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.
Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.
An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.
Both parties in Washington waste too much of your money. When I worked there, I helped expose waste and abuse by government contractors.