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• Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Gratitude, Fall, Grateful

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• What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Violation Of Human Rights, Lgbt, Humans

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

  Johannes Rau

  Copyright, Interest

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• To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that.

  Lynndie England

  Thinking, Feels, Agree

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• If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Research, Way

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• In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Goal, Achieve

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• Greg Kaidanov tried to get me to view his behavior as part of what makes him great - if he wouldn't get so upset about losing, he'd never maintain the level that he has. I see his point, but somehow I can't accept the idea that these sorts of verbal assaults on people are justified, no matter what their end goal is.

  Irina Krush

  Views, Ideas, People

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• When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Discovery, Belief

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2010). “The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Creation did not take millions of years. We can hardly be justified in trying to harmonize the days of creation with the extended periods of millions of years according to the reckoning of the so-called scientists.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Years, Trying, Scientist

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• People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  People, Facts, Patient

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

  Steven Erikson

  Desire, Virtue, Absence

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• You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Evil, Doe

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• In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry activism driven by rage, however justified it seems, is really not going to work. I believe that the tangled hierarchy wants us to move to the next state of evolution and very strongly desires us to take that quantum leap of creativity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Believe, Creativity

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• Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Political Will, Class

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• The Saviour and the Comforter, two Persons of the Godhead: the One ever saves from sins, and the Other comforts him who is saved. Their very names are taken from their deeds, and are always actually justified. He comforts! The Holy Spirit comforts the believing soul, as a mother comforts her child.

  John of Kronstadt

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• We National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitles on this earth. And this action is the only one which, before God and or German posterity, would make any sacrifice of blood seem justified: before God, since we have been put on this earth with the mission of eternal struggle for our daily bread.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Land

  Adolf Hitler (1943). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

  Bruce Schneier

  House, Cameras, Parks

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• Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Feel Good, Tangible, Results

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• There are good intentions behind many peoples conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But its hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an extremist way of eating.

  Julie Klausner

  Animal, Views, Way

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• Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

  Blaise Pascal

  Justice

  Blaise Pascal (1999). “Pensées and Other Writings”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry Kissinger admitted the other day, never got over President Nixon's impeachment, and didn't think, even though there was a pattern of illegal conduct there, sanctioned by the White House and proved by the tapes and other documentary evidence and testimony, they didn't believe that the impeachment was justified, and they didn't think he should have resigned.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Steps, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.252, Graphic Arts Books

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• The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

  N. T. Wright

  Energy, Enabling, Spirit

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Long, Greek

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.56, Routledge

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• Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take it down, but it took so much effort to even make cracks. And then I got tired of trying. Then I justified it. This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.

  Gayle Forman

  Wall, Tired, Effort

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