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• Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Circumstances, Suppression, Bloody

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• The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Facts, Impossible

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• Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Moving, Needs, Done

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• Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Art, Writing, Drawing

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• You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Men, He Man

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.499

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• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  E. O. Wilson

  Achievement, Enlightenment, Thinker

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.72, Vintage

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• The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

  Resentment, Worst, Feels

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• We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

  Graham Chapman

  Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

  Henry James

  Love, Writing, Literature

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.11956, Delphi Classics

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• On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Mean, Essence, Culture

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• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Cheerful, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2017). “Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) (PublishDrive)

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• You want to kill me, don't you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as capable of evil as anyone. Perhaps more so. Yet you believe your brand of evil is justified, so long as it serves your own misguided purposes." --Saint Dane

  D. J. MacHale

  Believe, Long, Evil

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Successful crimes alone are justified.

  John Dryden

  Funny, Humor, Successful

  'The Medal' (1682) l. 207

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• We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Morality, Manners

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• In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Killing, Defeated

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• No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

  Meir Kahane

  Revenge, Right Time, Traits

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• Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Order, History, Historical

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• The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

  Dan Savage

  War, Slave Owners, Slavery

  "Dan Savage Under Fire After Challenging Bible Talk" by Michelle Garcia, www.advocate.com. April 29, 2012.

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• The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven.

  Ellen G. White

  Heaven, Firsts, Titles

  Ellen G. White (2003). “Faith and Works”, p.5, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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• A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, how do you send someone else's?

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Son, Willing

  "The Situation Room" by Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

  John Sununu

  Growth, Enough Time, Cost

  First Speech by Anne Ruston as representative of South Australia, www.anneruston.com.au. October 10, 2012.

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• For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  Dan Rather

  Mean Girls, Hurt, Boys

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• People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Suffering, Religion

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• When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Men, Animal

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• There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

  Alberto Manguel

  Lines, Fables, Immortality

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.30, Vintage Canada

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