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• There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Biblical, Law

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

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• Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only LOVE.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Country, Pain

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• A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it (whatever its value may be).

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Men, Two

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

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• The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Trying, Doe

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

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• To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Real, People, Needs

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• To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

  Walter Sickert

  Likes And Dislikes, Serious, Artistic

  Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.

  Michael Faraday

  Believe, Science, Electrical Power

  Michael Faraday (1839). “Experimental Researches in Electricity: Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839”, p.249

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• Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Funny, God, Humorous

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

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• The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.

  Pope John Paul II

  Struggle, Passion, Hatred

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• To justify God's ways to man.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Men, Way

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)

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• The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

  Ben Kingsley

  Character, Men, Trying

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• America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.

  Don DeLillo

  Character, America, People

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.114, Vintage

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• You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Men, Passivity Is

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• Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice.” ~ Durzo Blint

  Brent Weeks

  Mean, Winning, Justice

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.

  Robert Adams

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Effort, Pieces

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• Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.

  Farley Mowat

  Animal, Men, Quality

  Farley Mowat (2015). “Never Cry Wolf”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

  R. C. Sproul

  Giving Up, Doe, Able

  R.C. Sproul (2017). “The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 1: The Holiness of God / Chosen by God”, p.364, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Acceptance, Mindfulness

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

  Albert Camus

  People, Causes, Innocent

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• I will tell you that what gives me a sense of joy is having work to do that justifies pouring every ounce of energy I have into it. That's really a blessing to have in your life. And it gives you energy back when you have the privilege of doing work that makes you feel that way.

  Al Gore

  Blessing, Giving, Joy

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I had a detailed plan for my life, but it turned out life had a completely different plan for me. And I feel joy that I have work that feels like it justifies pouring everything I have into it. I never have fallen prey to the illusion that there's any job with as much ability to influence the future as that of President of the United States, but I do feel grateful that I found other ways to do work that serves the public interest.

  Al Gore

  Grateful, Joy, President

  "Former VP Al Gore on environmentalism, Trump, and the climate crisis". "Sunday Morning" with Lee Cowan, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2017.

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• I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, Intellectual, Important

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• She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn’t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.

  Max Barry

  Mean, Bullshit, People

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• The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Kindness, Children

  Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated): Including Letters & Biographies – The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.4595, e-artnow

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• We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the concept of jihad and verses that ISIS now uses to justify beheadings come from. A young man just told me that he went back and read this carefully [and saw] the prophet and his people were fighting the Quraysh because they were not allowing the prophet and his people to practice their religion.

  Rukmini Maria Callimachi

  War, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.politico.com

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