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"Not everything is what it appears to be, and... intentions may start good but in the wrong hands, they can become extremely misused."
"When you don't understand the purpose of a thing, abuse is inevitable."
"With great power comes great responsibility. I hope you're using it for good. Unfortunately, I'm not. I'm very reckless with this power."
"Let's be totally honest here: I think that we can all agree that satire is one of the most misused and wrongly attributed genres of anything ever."
"Like any tool, it can transform into a weapon if misused."
"Just remember this one thing in your past: statistics don't lie, liars use statistics."
"Covet has exposed the awesome power that can be misused by government officials."
"The Patriot Act was passed for terrorism but used for everything else."
"Religion can be misused for evil purposes, and even many Christian fundamentalists will understand that there are people who are like false prophets, so to speak."
"The misuse is the problem, no matter what the drug is."
"Prosecutorial misconduct is their new tool and they are willing to use it at levels never seen before in our country."
"Now you're going to have many left as an activist using it as a left-wing activist hub. That's all it really is."
"It's not a design flaw when the gun works exactly how it's supposed to work; it is just being used by a complete evil piece of garbage."
"I've never seen anybody in bad faith use their gender identity as a way of like meme baiting other people."
"Far-right, Nazi, fascists - these are real political science terms that are abused widely to evoke visceral emotional reactions in the listener."
"A very dirty misuse of humanitarian aid for political purposes."
"Even very innocent teachings can be horribly abused and twisted."
"You can't start this with our stuff and then take it over here."
"The most serious and solemn and important and tragic last ditch safety valve in the constitution has been used as basically a 'we're number one' foam sign."
"Social media is a great tool but can be misused."
"But in the wrong hands AI can be very dangerous and incredibly harmful."
"It's far more important now to understand how this modern technology that has been designed to make ours better have been used to undermine the very foundation of the free world."
"Stop treating intelligence like a magic wand."
"Crafting toothbrush: Don't use toothbrush for crafting and for clay, don't do that."
"Religion can be dangerous in terms of how people use it."
"Great technology but also people use great things to do bad things, you know what I mean?"
"She has the power of the cosmos at her fingertips and she uses it just to [__] with people."
"Don't call 911 unless you really need to, unless you don't need to, then be very afraid to call."
"The criminal justice system is being used as a political weapon."
"If you think that the restrictions on free speech won't be misused by the right, then you're not thinking at all."
"Labeling racism wherever they see it... misuse of racism as a term of art in order to slander political opposition."
"One political party is transforming justice into a tool of political vengeance."
"Every word and term is going to have its misuses and abuses."
"Should these systems become propagated, they will be misused and mishandled well beyond their original intent."
"Stop making words mean nothing. Cuck and simp are not the words you're looking for."
"There's not an invention that man-made that cannot be used wrong."
"There's guaranteed bad things to happen people just will use it for evil."
"Anything under the Sun could be used the wrong way."
"Law enforcement is a shield that protects Americans. It can't be used as a weapon for political purposes."
"Like all tools, the bologna detection kit can be misused, applied out of context, or even employed as a rote alternative to thinking."
"If you do not know the original intent of the manufacturer, you will abuse the product."
"Nefarious actors are always the first to use technology, pushing the pace of innovation."
"Rogue Nations, oligarchs, and drug lords are using crypto."
"Pornography is actually used as a weapon of war."
"But there is the abuse of the religious tradition."
"The equality act becomes a sword, not a shield, when it's misused by activist groups."
"The justice system is being wielded as a weapon against Joe Biden's political opponents."
"It's just a stern punishment to use it frivolously."
"They used an athlete as a vehicle to advance a false narrative. I think it's incredibly unethical."
"We need to be worried about the AI that works exactly as intended in the hands of human operators who mean us harm."
"Once you understand the purpose of a thing, to continue to use the thing is to abuse the thing."
"I believe that there's a word for that that people are afraid to use and they often misuse."
"Don't blame the technology, blame what people did with it."
"Expression has tremendous power. Ironically, the people that hurt others with this ability are those who believe they are powerless."
"To use the post office as a profit-making venture is to abuse not only it but our constitution itself."
"The force isn't a superpower it's not the X Y button you compress something they use differently."
"Is it ever appropriate to turn congressional oversight authority into a weapon to harm a political opponent? No." - Mr. Williams
"I've seen the very same corporate media and lawyers continue to say that i'm saying all these things and exaggerating and using it against the first amendment i think that's very dangerous and despicable."
"If you don't know the purpose of a thing, abuse is inevitable."
"We overuse antibiotics anyway... we certainly are overusing them today to where they will become ineffective."
"You activated their third eye, you helped them to see how they were misusing and abusing their spiritual gifts."
"Religion has been used to commit some of the most heinous acts imaginable."
"It just shows you in the wrong hands technology can be used for evil and that's the sad thing."
"Worry is a misuse of the imagination."
"The FBI misused the 702 database and surveillance program 278,000 times."
"The drawer at the bottom of your oven isn't meant to be a storage locker."
"Tarot as divination is indisputably being used against the original intent of the cards."
"We would have much more success with bacteria if we weren't so profligate with our best weapon against them—antibiotics."
"Nearly every Trader is taught to use indicators and virtually all of them are using them in a way that's flat out wrong."
"They are misusing technology to harass people."
"Anything can be turned into a weapon in the wrong hands."
"The Bible has been misused; it has been used to support slavery, colonization, and to pervert the truth."
"You were a gift from the universe, but they misused you."
"Because they've done everything, including misuse of their spiritual gifts. They have done everything, queen of cups in reverse. Because queen of cups, she's a psychic. When you're in reverse, you're misusing spiritual gifts. But they think that you're doing that though."
"The internet's so undefeated, though. It's actually really fascinating when humans all get together, but we're using our powers for the wrong [__] reason."
"Think of how the crazy ass [__] of the world are going to use AI. And I don't mean like the elites, I mean like regular ass [__] jealous [__] ex-girlfriends."
"Just because there is something out there that you think should be used for good does not mean that it is good. It can also be used for bad because there are bad people in the [__] world."
"Many people are afraid of power because it can be so easily misused I'm not talking here about that kind of power where you loaded over everyone I'm talking about a power where you connect deeply with yourself."
"Unused prescription drugs left in the medicine cabinet can be easily misused and abused by the patient or diverted by family or friends."
"It's great TV, but using a sledgehammer inside a bathroom, it's really not what that tool was made for."
"Zabuza might have been a tool one used by Gat to carry out his misdeeds but like any tool when you mishandle it and you truly don't respect that tool that you're using it can actually kill you."
"...we would like to stress that there could be dire consequences should Arya's core be utilized by those who wish to destabilize the harmony of the solar system."
"What happens when there's something new? People have a tendency to overdo it, they abuse it."
"Just because something can be misused doesn't mean that the whole thing is illegitimate."
"Just because social media misuses it doesn't mean we have to toss out the whole thing."
"Delve into the potential dangers, exploring what could go awry if magic is misused or falls into the wrong hands."
"Paracetamol, commonly taken for relief, can lead to severe hepatitis and acute liver failure if misused, particularly at doses exceeding 4 Gs per day."
"The number one thing on this list is that no priest should ever tell you that it cost money for the sacraments. It just that that is such an egregious misuse of the role of the priesthood to charge for the sacraments."
"...using the pen directly on the tongue because that's... could you?"
"Taking an antibiotic for viral infections not only doesn't help, it's actually a public health catastrophe waiting to happen."
"Antibiotics have been abused and misused for so long, the various bacteria strains have started to get resistance to them."
"I think it's crucial that we removed that provision because we know the extent to which it was misused."
"He'd been using our personal funds on whatever he wanted."
"He was using the company's money to fund his dates with his mistress."
"He takes the word of God and he takes it out of the hands of the Holy Spirit and he uses it to kill you."
"The only time you break a Snap-On tool, I think, is when you use a flathead screwdriver as a chisel."
"Piers Morgan used his position to abuse people countless times."
"But it is sad to note that so-called populous demagogues use or misuse religion for their interests."
"...if somebody wants to use the six sigma name to validate a pet project or something that they have a presupposed solution for, that's probably going to end up being a problem."
"The masses abuse democracy and empowering technologies in order to destroy the established order."
"Gift cards are now being co-opted by scammers."
"Bitcoin is a bad example of using technology and corrupting its use and unfortunately casting all the technology under a gray spell."
"It is far worse to do evil in the name of God. That is taking the name of God in vain."
"The more powerful a technology is, the more powerfully it can be abused."
"Walter White is misusing his genius for chemistry."
"Technology it can be fun, well, you know, when it's not used for evil like this."
"Never, ever judge a philosophy by its abuse."
"God didn't give you grace so you could sin more."
"When a term becomes popular, a lot of people use the term rather liberally and sometimes not even correctly."
"Every single law that has ever been introduced for one purpose has been twisted and used for another."
"We're going to see just how dangerous power in the wrong hands can be."
"When you give the government the ability to break the law to go after the criminals, eventually they're going to use that same process to go after their enemies."
"Scripture should never be weaponized."
"Antibiotics can be misused, and the overuse of antibiotics has led to some resistance in hospitals and other medical settings."
"A text without a context becomes a pretext for a proof text."
"History teaches us that whenever an authority gains power, it invariably uses it and often misuses it as well."
"The technology's using us, it's not supposed to be that way."
"Dopamine is not bad; it's only abused in this technological world."
"The biggest mistake I see people make is they're trying to use this very powerful tool but in just completely the wrong circumstances."
"Anxiety is just a misuse of the imagination."
"Dark side characteristics can also be seen as overused strengths."
"I just don't like when people use Divinity and Faith as a weapon."
"Your precious creation is nothing more than another weapon to be misused."
"The nature of the work that Alexander Kogan did was important and that work was based on the data he acquired from Facebook wrongly."
"Oh Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name."
"The term A.I. is being applied to too many of the wrong things, and not enough of the right ones."
"The internet was not constructed to be used as a torture device and a Kangaroo Court."
"The scientism is an exaggerated belief in and an inappropriate use of the methods of science in places where those methods are not applicable."
"We love numbers even when they're inappropriate, which is almost all the time."
"...they're sometimes weaponized to destroy people who have made mistakes but who really don't deserve to be destroyed."
"I don't think it's right that people use pets as like an accessory."
"The power of procreation is spiritually significant; misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan."
"Just because something is misused doesn't mean that that something itself is wrong."
"Every new invention, every new challenge is always misused and abused to start with."
"Defects are often strengths being misused."
"You're not supposed to put API jackets on top of your data."
"Digimon can be misused for cyber terrorism known as Digimon crimes."
"It's not wrong for someone not to like you back, what is wrong is if a person uses you."
"He created the watch to connect everyone, not to be used as some stupid weapon."
"However, during the course of this trial, you will be called upon to pay attention to a good deal of information about computers and how they are used and indeed misused."
"The world as a whole has forgotten the real meaning of the word love. Love has been so abused and crucified by men that very few people know what true love is."
"The best can be the worst if people do not use it in the right way."
"Never use your telescope to stir margaritas."
"Don't blame the Bible, blame the man that's using the Bible wrongly."
"Misused tools can lead to unexpected results and creativity."
"When you don't know the purpose of something, abuse is inevitable."
"Religion is peaceful; it's full of love, and a lot of these cultures weaponize religions."
"We have so much fun watching Homer use and abuse his new powers."
"We use God as an instrument of destruction; we use love as an instrument of destruction."
"We were given this great gift to have the best life, and we just use it to fight and to create chaos and to hurt each other."
"Being used by bad people is a consequence of being too nice."
"AI has been a really great tool for that, but it is often misused, it is often misunderstood."
"Human right is not a problem, the thinking is good, but the problem is some people use human right as a weapon."
"Never beg people to be your friends; they can misuse you because of that."
"Money misused can be like a mirror; you see only yourself."
"Power is always dangerous, power can always be misused, it can always be used to oppress."
"The Bible has been weaponized by certain people in the body of faith."
"The use of schedule pressure as a positive instrument was being misapplied."
"Authority is a very scary thing in the wrong hands."
"Funny how human beings can take an article meant for happiness and use it for tragedy."
"Gorilla Glue is not a game, it's not a joke, you literally..."
"Mortals receive the Divine gift of intellect, the potential for wisdom, but they misuse it to destroy the beauty of creation."
"Good things could be used the wrong way, they could be applied in a way that becomes detrimental."
"These powers ended up in the wrong hands."
"I think there's obviously a lot of great that can come from social media, but I think that it's abused a lot."
"We take the good gifts from God and instead of relishing in those good gifts in such a way that it leads to greater worship of God, we simply abuse those good gifts."
"He was a member of Mensa who unfortunately used his incredible intellectual gift for evil instead of good."
"Social media is not what's ruining the world; it's the way it's being used."
"Evil comes about when people misuse their freedom."
"There's a myriad of reasons why religion has been used throughout the ages to perpetrate evil."
"If you don't understand it, don't abuse it."
"Mental health is not an excuse in the way that a lot of us try to use it and weaponize it."
"The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is use."
"Most people are using the wrong painkillers for their pain."
"Music was created by God; it's a good thing, but as with any good thing, it can be abused."
"Clout can be a good thing or a bad thing for people; clout can actually be misused and mishandled."
"...creating things isn't the issue; it's bad people who use them for bad reasons..."
"Religion scares me... when people use religion as an excuse to do whatever they want."
"I've come to the realization that a lot of people may not be using their software modelers in the right fashion."
"I am so tired of people using God as an excuse to be a terrible human being."
"The resulting disasters should make us think about their misuse."
"The only thing worse than ignorance of history is the abuse of it."
"Stewardship and revelation and keys... it's such a wonderful thing but it can absolutely be misused or abused if we don't understand the Lord's process."
"The most misused thing in the world is not people, it's money."
"That's basically where the Armor War series comes from: villains getting their hands on Iron Man's technology and then using it in the worst possible way."
"When the purpose of a thing is not known, the abuse of it is inevitable."
"If you misuse your tool, there's a high likelihood that you're going to break it."