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• I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Flying, Risk

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

  C.D. Wright

  Death, Expression, Poetry

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

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• We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works.  To the age-old question, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ the confessional answer is shocking: ‘Nothing!  Just be still; shut up and listen for once in your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is saying to his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his Son!  Listen and believe!’

  Gerhard

  Believe, Son, Age

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• We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

  William Gurnall

  Giving, Receiving, Done

  William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.22

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• Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

  Lauryn Hill

  Believe, Hero, Names

  "Lauryn Hill’s Thesis On Where Art & Corporate Interests Meet Recalls Dave Chappelle’s Escape" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. June 10, 2012.

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• If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Believe, Thinking

  "Cheney: Saddam Wants Nuclear Weapons", www.foxnews.com. September 9, 2002.

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• [N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.

  J. I. Packer

  Jesus, Eye, Mind

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• We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God’s Word certainly doesn’t give us the luxury of believing that.

  R. C. Sproul

  Believe, Luxury, Giving

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• We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

  Jeff Cooper

  Victim, Self Defense, Persons

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

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• I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Confused, People, Confusion

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

  Jane Austen

  Dream, Falling In Love, Love Is

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.440, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.

  John Calvin

  Men, Sight, Christ

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.318, Lulu.com

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• It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem for us. We feel justified in being annoyed with everything. We feel justified in denigrating ourselves or in feeling that we are more clever than other people. Self-importance hurts us, limiting us to the narrow world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up never satisfied.

  Pema Chodron

  Hurt, Clever, Drama

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Sacred, Sin, Method

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• Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

  Daniel Pauly

  Chickens

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• If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Individual Differences, Liberty, Would Be

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

  Simone Weil

  Self Confidence, People, Doubt

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• In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

  Carter G. Woodson

  School, Black, Taught

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.4, Book Tree

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• Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Wisdom, Emotional

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.

  Roberto Fontanarrosa

  Soccer, Tvs, Would Be

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• The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Effectiveness, National Parks, Administration

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.300, Cambria Press

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• Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Stories, Pieces, Existence

  Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.64, Profile Books

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• Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility, Common Humanity, Violence

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• Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

  Iris Murdoch

  Inspirational, Destiny, Our Destiny

  Iris Murdoch (2013). “The Sovereignty of Good”, p.77, Routledge

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• The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).

  J. I. Packer

  Fruit, Truth Is, Good Work

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