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• Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

  Thomas Keneally

  Schindler's List

  "Fictional character: Oskar Schindler". "Schindler's List", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Animal, Men

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• Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

  Charles M. Vest

  Education, Hurt, Quality

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

  Mario Puzo

  Past, World, Excuse

  Mario Puzo (1996). “The Last Don”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Real, Theatre, Action

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• Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Adventure, Two, Risk

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• There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Two, People, Listening

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 170, 1951.

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• In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited range of constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be performed without such a resort.

  Martin Van Buren

  Government, Events, Debt

  Martin Van Buren (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk”, p.1825, Wildside Press LLC

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• The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Men, Sight, Degrees

  Robin Boisvert, C. J. Mahaney (1992). “This Great Salvation: Unmerited Favor, Unmatched Joy”, p.52, Sovereign Grace Ministries

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• The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Victory, Air Power

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated”

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• This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.

  John L. Lewis

  Heart, Organization, Support

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental freedoms but also. . . it undermines personal health and public safety. Regardless of your views on the civil liberties issues. . .another compelling justification for marijuana law reform: that it will promote health and safety for all of us, including our nation's children.

  Nadine Strossen

  Children, Marijuana, Law

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• The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life, Real, Sacrifice

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1997). “Bulletin”

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• The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

  Jacques Barzun

  Teaching, Learning, School

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• Eradicate self-justification.
  Then alone can you annihilate your ego.

  Sivananda

  Self, Ego, Self Justification

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• Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look out only for ourselves. But that is far from the truth. In reality we all depend on each other and we have to help each other. The husband has to help his wife, the wife has to help the husband, the mother has to help her children, and the children are supposed to help the parents too, whether they want to or not.

  Gelek Rimpoche

  Mother, Husband, Children

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• Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

  J. I. Packer

  Criminals, Transition, Inheritance

  J. I. Packer (1997). “Great Grace: A 31-day Devotional”, Servant Publications

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• The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Heart, Sanctification

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• Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

  Michael Servetus

  Mistake, Want, Argument

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• The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

  E. P. Thompson

  Firsts, Missiles

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• This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Law, Psychological, Procedures

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• Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and the public sees us. The theatrical illusion is shattered if we ask what goes on behind the scenes. In real life discovery and justification are almost always different processes.

  Peter Medawar

  Real, Science, Discovery

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

  Jinzaburo Takagi

  Plutonium, Program, Continuing

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• It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.

  Chris Hayes

  War, Hero, Valor

  "MSNBC host apologizes after saying he's 'uncomfortable' calling fallen soldiers heroes". www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2012.

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• But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

  Kate Adie

  War, Iraq, Soldier

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