#misuse

People of very different opinions--friends who can discuss politics, religion, and sex with perfect civility--are often reduced to red-faced rage when the topic of conversation is the serial comma or an expression like more unique. People who merely roll their eyes at hate crimes feel compelled to write jeremiads on declining standards when a newspaper uses the wrong form of its. Challenge my most cherished beliefs about the place of humankind in God's creation, and while I may not agree with you, I'll fight to the death for your right to say it. But dangle a participle in my presence, and I'll consider you a subliterate cretin no longer worth listening to, a menace to decent society who should be removed from the gene pool before you do any more damage. ↗

— Jack Lynch

#language #misuse #ungrammatical #death

I would find myself backing away from all of the "isms," all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#always #away #backing #been #communities

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith. ↗

— Mark Hatfield

#concerns #faith #ideology #me #misuse

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day. ↗

— J. Martin Kohe

#either #every #every day #force #hundreds

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#alcohol #bad #children #comes #country

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#gift #god #misuse #mustn #stupidity

But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#also #come #could #covered #every

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal. ↗

— Clare Short

#aid #bear #brought #enormous #enormous pressure

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#how #misleading #misused #often #thoughts

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#agencies #billions #bureaucracy #cards #credit