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• Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

  Richard Whately

  Envy, Feelings, Looks

  Richard Whately (1858). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.247

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• No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you should feel differently. Don't try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that's keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.

  Esther Hicks

  Healing, Feel Better, Thinking

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• Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Deceit, Distrust

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• I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Play, Perspective, Judging

  "It's more about the work than the money for Experimenter star Peter Sarsgaard". Interview with Pete Croatto, film.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

  Manisha Sinha

  Racism, Slavery, Slaveholders

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I think when you're reaching outside of something you're comfortable doing, you're just heading towards a light. I don't think you stop to justify it.

  Sally Field

  Thinking, Light, Doing You

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• The only way to reduce our national debt is to grow the economy and cut spending. We have no idea how our money is being spent. As president, I will move all agencies to zero-based budgeting so that every agency has to justify every dollar that they spend.

  Carly Fiorina

  Zero, Moving, Cutting

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates, and they become, in behavior if not in thought, adherents of the woolly idea of a 'living Constitution.' They endorse, by their passivity, the idea that new threats justify ignoring the Framers' text and logic about shared responsibility for war-making.

  George Will

  War, Responsibility, Government

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• Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view...Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Honesty, Views, Tables

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• There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

  Timothy Keller

  Real, Responsibility, Self

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• From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms of temporary defeat. This would seem to justify the conclusion that Infinite Intelligence has a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion.

  Napoleon Hill

  Fashion, Opportunity, Men

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• The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food every day. Inductivists think that the chicken had "extrapolated" its observations into a theory, and that each feeding time added justification to that theory. Then one day the farmer came and wrung the chicken's neck. This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, One Day, Necks

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• In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're going to end up the same as him. He's the most sympathetic character in the movie. So, the naïve cop ends up murdering this Black kid and tries to cover up the evidence. It sort of justifies police brutality and the planting of evidence which is what happened in the O.J. Simpson case.

  Ishmael Reed

  Character, Kids, Police

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of justifies its existence.

  Christopher McQuarrie

  Design, Challenges, Existence

  Source: collider.com

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• Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deceit, Distrust

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• Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mean, Criminals, Thieves

  The Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2016.

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• Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

  Eden Robinson

  Empathy, Use, Logic

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

  Merrill McPeak

  Military, War, Two

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• My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.

  Philip Pullman

  Teacher, Real, Believe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Sustainability requires that we demand enduring quality. Steve Strong has a slide presentation pointing out that much of Oxford was built 800 years ago. What are we building today that will be here 800 years from now? If something like that emerged from this recession, it would help justify the hardship so many people are currently experiencing.

  Denis Hayes

  Strong, Years, Oxford

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• A mother is willing and capable of doing anything for her children. You can justify it if you do something for your children, especially as a Mexican mother. I don't know about some other nationalities, but the Mexican mothers are like that. They will do anything for their children.

  Salma Hayek

  Mother, Children, Mexican

  "Blake Lively & Salma Hayek Interview, Savages". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 29, 2018.

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• I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

  Matt Chandler

  Running, Believe, Sovereign

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all.

  Matt Chandler

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.christianitytoday.com

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• I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

  Chael Sonnen

  Practice, Doe, Would Be

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Communism, Nazi

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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