Misuse Quotes - Page 7

• Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

  Geoffrey Hinton

  Digging, Courses

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our economy as well, maybe even more urgent bearing in mind the problem that we cannot yet deal with, namely the prevalence of the oil and gas sector in the Russian Federation and, as a result, dependence on revenue from oil and gas.

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Oil, Leader

  Source: thesaker.is

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• African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

  Ras Baraka

  African American, Abuse, Kind

  "Newark’s mayor on solutions he is using to change his city making it a better place for all". "PBS NewsHour" with Charlayne Hunter-Gault, www.pbs.org. September 29, 2016.

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• I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."

  Kevin Sessums

  Shoes, White, Term

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Government, Giving

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• One of the reasons why I've written The Challenge for Africa is to save it. Surely there are so many problems we can solve in Africa, but first and foremost, we need a government that feels responsible to protect their own people from the exploitations, from the misuse, from the mistreatment that they can easily get.

  Wangari Maathai

  Government, People, Challenges

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language has been malformed - we have been overcome with banality and the cynical misuse of language. When a candidate runs a campaign on a series of dog-whistles to bigots, then turns around and talks about "healing the wounds of division," that is right out of Orwell.

  George Saunders

  Running, Dog, Healing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• In many instances, LSD actually produced terrifying and deleterious effects instead of beneficial effects, because of misuse, because it was a profanation.

  Albert Hofmann

  Lsd, Instance, Beneficial

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• A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.

  Sister Souljah

  Mean, Men, Attention

  Sister Souljah (2013). “The Sister Souljah Collection #1: The Coldest Winter Ever; Midnight, A Gangster Love Story; and Midnight and the Meaning of Love”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.

  Joseph Goebbels

  History, Holocaust, Nazism

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