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• Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Movement, Firsts, Poetic

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• Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

  Wellington Mara

  Self, Servant, Treacherous

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• Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.

  Levy Mwanawasa

  Gmos, People, Giving

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• There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

  Freda Adler

  Courage, May, Sides

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler and Herbert M. Adler, 1975.

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• These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

  Jacques Chirac

  Condolences, Names, People

  "Widespread International Condemnation of Attacks". www.irishtimes.com. March 11, 2004.

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• If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

  Thomas Cech

  Want, Strange, Study

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports Interview, embor.embopress.org. September 2001.

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• No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  War, People, Saving

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• Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

  Robert Barclay

  Jesus, Heart, Fruits Of The Spirit

  Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.110

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• But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.

  Thomas Perry

  Fun, Hero, Character

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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• You guys that worry about eating clean are actually merely bodybuilders looking for justification for your obsession with abs. You cannot get big and strong on 3000 kcal/day. And you cannot eat 7000/day and eat perfectly “clean”.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Strong, Worry, Guy

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• The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

  Paul Tournier

  Block, Men, Self

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• Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.

  F.B. Meyer

  Pride, Sacrifice, Blood

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• Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

  Ashley Montagu

  Mutilation, Ritual, Civilized Society

  "Mutilated Humanity" by Ashley Montagu, 1991.

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• It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Action, Life Is

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• We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fashion, Couple, War

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• And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so eminent that they are owed in condign [deserved] judgment that which is given freely. Would it not be a debasement of redemption in Christ’s blood, and would not God’s mercy be made secondary to human works, if justification, which is through grace, were owed in view of preceding merits, so that it were not the gift of a Donor, but the wages of a laborer?

  Prosper of Aquitaine

  Views, Blood, Grace

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• So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Information, Printing

  "The Aims of Education". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Chess, Sound, Strategy

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• I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an attitude bespeaks an unimaginativeness, a mental obtuseness and obstinacy.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Attitude, Distance, Astrology

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• I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, Stories, Enough

  "The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up". Book by Susan Orlean, 2010.

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• Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun moves and the earth is at rest, would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Mean, Two

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• The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Joy, Forfeit, Articles

  Martin Luther (1972). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.33, CCEL

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• problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I `do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once we release Paul's justification-language from the burden of having to describe `how someone becomes a Christian', however, this is simply no longer a problem. There is no danger of imagining that Christian faith is after all a surrogate `work', let alone a substitute form of moral righteousness. Faith is the badge of covenant membership, not something someone `performs' as a kind of initiation test.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Play, Membership

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• There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Reason, Existence

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• The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Data, Models

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