A Quotes
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“A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.”
“A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.”
Source: The Intelligent Universe
“A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment.”
Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V4: the History Focus
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
“A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse.”
“A jury found former Enron sleezeballs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling guilty of fraud and conspiracy. Ken Lay? That's not a good name to have when you're going to prison. And Kenny Boy ain't too good either. ... I guess in prison they'll have done to them what they did to the stockholders.”
“A jury is always a more orthodox body than any defendant brought before it; for blacks it is usually a whiter group, for poor people, a more prosperous group...
Another lesson about the justice system: the way the judge charges the jury inevitably pushes them one way or the other, limits their independent judgment.”
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.”
“A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.”
Source: Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
“A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.”
Source: Brigadier-general Thomas Francis Meagher: his political and military career; with selections from his speeches and writings
“A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.”
Source: The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference
“A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote.”
Source: Defending Jacob
“A jury will label a distressed female as shrill or hysterical for the exact same behaviors they’d term righteous indignation in a man.”
Source: The Devil You Know
“A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.”
Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index
“A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.”
Source: Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions
“A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.”
“A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.”
“A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.”
“A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.”
Source: The Beauties of Bacon
“A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]”
“A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.”
“A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.”
Source: The Politics of Prudence
“A just human is a universal human.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.”
“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.”
“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.”
“A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.”
“A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.”
“A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.”
“A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know.”
“A just society is one that allows all of its members access to the widest possible range of fundamental goods. Fundamental goods include education, health, the right to vote, and more generally to participate as fully as possible in the various forms of social, cultural, economic, civic, and political life. A just society organizes socioeconomic relations, property rights, and the distribution of income and wealth in such a way as to allow its least advantaged members to enjoy the highest possible life conditions. A just society in no way requires absolute uniformity or equality. To the extent that income and wealth inequalities are the result of different aspirations and distinct life choices or permit improvement of the standard of living and expansion of the opportunities available to the disadvantaged, they may be considered just. But this must be demonstrated, not assumed, and this argument cannot be invoked to justify any degree of inequality whatsoever, as it too often is.”
Source: Capital and Ideology
“A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.”
“A just system must generate its own support.”
Source: A Theory of Justice
“A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.”
“A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.”
“A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!”
“A.K.A kirefu chake ni 'Also Known As'. K.K.K kirefu chake ni 'Kadhalika Kikijulikana Kama'. K.N.K kirefu chake ni 'Kadhalika Nikijulikana Kama'. K.A.K kirefu chake ni 'Kadhalika Akijulikana Kama'. Kadhalika, unaweza kusema P.K.K (Pia Kikijulikana Kama), P.N.K (Pia Nikijulikana Kama) au P.A.K (Pia Akijulikana Kama).Tujifunze kuupenda utamaduni wetu, ili vizazi vijavyo visisumbuke.”
“A kada je bol prejak i kad
udarci postanu neizdrživi, onda se zavučemo u sebe i čekamo da oluja
prođe. Uvek dođe trenutak kada se neprijatelj umori. Uvek dođe
trenutak kada se, najzad, ukaže nada za spas.”
Source: Parce que je t'aime
“A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.”
“A: Kalelerini onar öyleyse
Savaşmak bir kez daha kapında
Söyle bitti mi her şey?
E: Yağmur beklentisi ile akıp gidiyor yıllar
Bitti sandığın zaman yeniden başlayacak.”
Source: Denenmiş Şeyler
“A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is the kind of power that science fosters, and permits....”
“A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart”
“A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata are not some kind of beautiful competitive dance, but a grand martial art of self-defense - which determines life and death.”
“A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.”
Source: Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain