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• Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

  Thad Cochran

  Change, Thinking, President

  "Dems Call Bush's Budget a 'Hoax'; Pentagon Faces Program Cuts Despite Budget Increase; Two U.N. Officials Suspended over Scandal". "Lou Dobbs Tonight", edition.cnn.com. February 7, 2005.

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• The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

  W. Averell Harriman

  War, Eyebrows, Numbers

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• Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld smirking and boasting as they announce their Shock and Awe offensive, we hope he understands why we believe we have been dragged into something we should have been fighting tooth and nail to stop.

  Piers Morgan

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

  Tony Blair

  War, Views, Iraq

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• The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I think if you look at some of the things that have happened this year with the Freedom Agenda, it should encourage you, that when you show up, we actually win.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Winning, Thinking

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• I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Israel, Two

  "The US and Israel Stand Alone". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2006.

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• Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

  Walter Bagehot

  Wise, Mean, Promise

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.

  Samuel Smiles

  Success, Men, Common Sense

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.255

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• What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.

  Earl Browder

  War, Years, World

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• The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, War, Enemy

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.46, Columbia University Press

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• When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.

  Pearl Cleage

  Character, Angel, Play

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• So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

  Izaak Walton

  Ignorance, Long, Ignorant

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• I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'

  David S. Goyer

  Games, Digging, Thrones

  "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Software, Knows

  Richard M. Stallman's speech "Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation", New York University in New York, New York, www.gnu.org. May 29, 2001.

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• So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christian's spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been raised up out of the grave of his sins. From that point on, Satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged, in our own grave clothes. He knows that if we continue in this kind of bondage...we are not much better off than when we were spiritually dead.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Clothes

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• Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

  Douglas Hurd

  Men, Action, Accepted

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• I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Compassion, Our World

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• We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imperfection in the organization of spiritual life as rudimentary as the communal existence of protozoa in colonies.

  Marcel Proust

  Spiritual, Thinking, Animal

  Marcel Proust (2016). “TIME REGAINED (Modern Classics Series): Metaphysical Novel - Coming to a Full Circle (In Search of Lost Time)”, p.296, e-artnow

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• If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Healthy, Fundamentals

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• The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

  Pope John XXIII

  Men, Racism, Dignity

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• When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

  Cyril Connolly

  Suicide, Creative, Despair

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• I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.

  William Saroyan

  Daughter, Son, Technology

  William Saroyan (1976). “Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.

  Howard Zinn

  Evil, Violence, Degrees

  ZNet forum reply, May 26, 1999.

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• When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.

  Herve Falciani

  People, Example, Communism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hurt, Memories, May

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.96, Anchor

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