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• When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

  Christopher Booker

  Past, Years, Data

  "The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something Mary Shelley (and Gertrude Stein) also suggest). "Torch Song," the book's final section, looks at an arson committed by someone hired to protect the wilderness from fires, a catastrophic failure of protection!

  Laura Mullen

  Song, Book, Fire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hopeful, Events, Looks

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action.

  Marianne Williamson

  Military, War, Believe

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs are justified, is deeply commonsensical. More than that, the idea that responsible epistemic agents ought to reflect on their beliefs, and hold them only if they somehow pass muster, is utterly natural.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Reflection, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a belief is justified must somehow be internal to the agent. On some views, this amounts to the claim that these features must be accessible to introspection and armchair reflection. On others, it amounts only to the claim that they must be mental features.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Believe, Reflection, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Now Pope Francis on his overnight flight back to Italy explains how contraception can be justified. This is the pope, the Vicar of Christ, the Catholic Church explaining how contraception could be justified. And then he rips into capitalism and the American immigration policies while at the Mexican border before getting on his plane to go back to Italy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rip, Mexican Border, Catholic

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Pope Francis said the use of contraception could be justified in regions hit by the Zika virus; a stance that could reignite a debate over the church's prohibition of the use of condoms to stop the spread of the AIDS virus. The pope also criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as 'not Christian' for his immigration stance, and broke with his predecessors by suggesting that Catholic lawmakers are free to vote for same-sex marriage and civil unions if they want to.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Sex, Presidential

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a ChristianThe Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• You think the pope is mad that Donald Trump said Two Corinthians instead of "second"? Get this. Pope Francis just said that contraception can be justified now.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Two, Mad

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

  Roger Ailes

  Mistake, Fighting, Winning

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

  Doc Childre

  Anger, Moral Judgement, Feelings

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• The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

  Anthony Standen

  Science, Views, Spirit

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Numbers, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in which a political culture of hyper-punitiveness has become normalized. Revealing itself in a blatant display of unbridled arrogance and power, it is unchecked by any sense of either conscience or morality.

  Henry Giroux

  Political, Arrogance, Culture

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of necessity or any real conflict between human and nonhuman interests. If animals matter morally at all, then, even without accepting a theory of animal rights, those uses of animals cannot be morally justified.

  Gary L. Francione

  Real, Animal, Rights

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• For instance, in the last five years [till 2016], we've admitted nearly 100,000 immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan. And these two countries according to Pew Research, a majority of residents say that the barbaric practice of honor killings against women are often or sometimes justified. That's what they say.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Years, Practice

  Source: time.com

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• Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

  Dalai Lama

  Violence, Method, Circumstances

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified. Their crimes are justifiable. It’s retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Hands, Color

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

  Sylvia Porter

  People, Assumption, Affair

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• You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Gun, Race, Class

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

  Ken Wilber

  Belief, Form, Justification

  Ken Wilber (2003). “Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free!”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• We need some remedial training on how to live as subjects in a kingdom. We may be justified in rejecting the divine right of kings to rule but we cannot be justified if we reject the rule of our divine king.

  Joe Carter

  Kings, Divine Right, Training

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• Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

  J. I. Packer

  People, Saint, Holiness

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.88, Baker Books

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• The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.

  Vandana Shiva

  Order, Creating, Diversity

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Is it logical to ask how far away are we from the pope explaining that abortion can be justified, "in certain circumstances, in certain regions," and if it might be related to the evils of American capitalism and our immigration policy?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Evil, Abortion, Immigration

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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