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• Must you know that yours will be the “better” picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty? Must a rose be “better” than an iris in order to justify it’s existence? I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Flower, Garden, Expression

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.212, Penguin

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• Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

  Arthur Miller

  Crucible, Principles, May

  Arthur Miller (1992). “The Crucible”, p.106, Heinemann

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• We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

  James Frey

  People, Way, Found

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• People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Space, People, Feelings

  Charlaine Harris (2002). “Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out of yourself for ever.

  Paul Celan

  Strong, World, Hours

  Paul Celan (1972). “Selected poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• Marketers... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal is to drive preference or justify a price premium, the environmental benefit needs to be conveyed.

  Scott Young

  Business, Appreciate, Goal

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• The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

  Margaret Haddix

  Government, People, Survival

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2002). “Among the Hidden”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

  Julian Barnes

  Opposites, Common Sense, Decision

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• I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering. I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.

  Oscar Arias

  Hate, Believe, Mean

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• I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Revenge, Thinking, Law

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes #6”, p.147, Zillmann Publishing

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• Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Book, Writing, Character

  Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com

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• It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Difficult, Profession

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Healing, Belief

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• All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Love, Sexy, Romantic Passionate

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• Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used to CLAIM that the putschists are saving the country from ‪‎terrorism or ‪#civil war‬, and are preserving "‪law‬ and ‪‎order‬

  Gene Sharp

  Country, War, Order

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• Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

  Scott Lynch

  Words Of Wisdom, Needs, Quitting

  Scott Lynch (2013). “The Republic of Thieves”, p.489, Del Rey

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• Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experience generally, the more we shall be convinced that we have to do with one who is good and just.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  God, Spiritual, Giving

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.354

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• It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Self, Doubt, Secret

  Margaret Oliphant Oliphant (1880). “He that will not when he may”

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• Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

  Albert Ellis

  Stupid, Food, Personality

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• One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

  Olive Schreiner

  People, Bitter, Form

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Jobs, Live Life, People

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I've always liked bad behavior, I'm a fan of bad behavior, and I don't think you have to justify bad behavior.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, Directors, Fans

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

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• The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

  Ray Lewis

  Confused, Trying, Refs

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections that they can use to justify indiscriminate, dragnet surveillance operations that were at best unwittingly authorized by lawmakers.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Nsa, Use

  "Snowden: NSA pressured EU into creating ‘European bazaar’ of spy networks". www.rt.com. March 7, 2014.

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• We all know people who say: "It's the principle of the matter" to justify sustaining toxic emotions for years. As they hold onto their anger or hurt, they bleed away their energy reserves, often ending up bitter and depressed.

  Doc Childre

  Hurt, Anger, Years

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