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“Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard purebred evil and is easily recognized even by moral neophytes. Other malignities-drugs in America, famine in Africa and everything in the Middle East-are more complex. When combating those evils people sometimes have trouble deciding whom to shoot.”

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.”

Art Philosophy Form Natural History Cases Natural Forms Copiers

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.”

People History Cases Mere Rebellion Unconventional

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?”

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

Thinking Wisdom Past Time Change History Cases Quiet Difficulty Obstacles Occasions Civil War Dogma Inadequate Stormy Unschooling Stormy Days

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.”

Doe Law History Cases Morality Historical Notion International Objectivity International Law

Book:Historical inevitability

Source: Historical inevitability

“History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.”

Made History Cases Rich Conclusion Instance Selection

Book:The Lessons of History

Source: The Lessons of History

“To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.”

Mind History Cases Perspective Available Profession Secure Routine Shrinks Judicial Precedent Atrophy Daily Routines

Author:Irving Kaufman