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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.”

Seems Effort Pieces Boxes Each Day Justify Day To Day Puzzles Disconnected Jigsaw Jigsaw Puzzles

Author:Robert Adams

“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.”

People World Needs Character Use America Type Comfort Function Blame Myth Disaster Locals Theme Justify Accommodate Recurring Useful Things Recurring Themes

Book:The Names

Source: The Names

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

Men Trying Character He Man Pages Tricks Justify

Author:Ben Kingsley

“To justify God's ways to man.”

Men Way Drinking Justify

Author:A. E. Housman

“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.”

Humans Kind Religion Humanity Passion Moral Struggle Violence Type Hatred Worthy Selfishness Justify Moral Struggle

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.”

Giving God Humor Funny Humorous Eternity Justify Margins

Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“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.”

Knows Way Mind Believe Ideas Matter Facts Science Quality Justify Mutual Chemicals Atoms Particles Electrical Affinity Immensity Electrical Power

Book:Experimental Researches in Electricity: Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839

Source: Experimental Researches in Electricity: Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839

“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).”

Men Firsts May Doe Two Different Science Values Differences Existence Activity Justify

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.”

Ideas Causes Mass Abstract Justify Slaughter

Book:From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays

Source: From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays

“Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.”

Writing Art Soul Self Reason Values Discipline Art Is Add Realization Former Permanent Enjoyment Justify Great Art Richness Attainment Transient Extending Refreshments

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“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.”

People Needs Real Attention Easier Justify

Author:Isabelle Adjani

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

Serious Likes Artistic Justify Dislike Likes And Dislikes

Book:Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

Source: Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

“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.”

Ifs Men Way Writing Ends States Might Interesting Accepting Reader Intention Satan Relax Justify Controlled Passivity Passivity Is

Author:Ian Mcewan

“I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.”

People Ifs Thinking Saws Impossible Right Now Patterns Justify Labeling

Author:Skeet Ulrich

“You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.”

Facts Law Passion Logic Court Justify Dogma Law Courts

Author:Alexander Herzen

“When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.”

Should Looks Two Whole Song Easy Records Selling Buying Justify Greedy Cadillacs

Author:Patrick Carney

“It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.”

Thinking Mind Looks Sometimes Reason Certain Views Impossible Circumstances Philosopher Determined Mortals Justify Diverse

Author:Morris Raphael Cohen

“Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.”

Mind Believe Mean Happens Justify Foolishness Impossibility Atheistic

Author:Ray Comfort

“Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.”

Facts Mystery Office Bigger Debt Justify Logical Deficit

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.”

Business Existence Principles Modern Survival Journalism Justify Modern Journalism

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Humans Mean Ends Science Given Effort Failing Failure Cells Reasonable Justify Human Mind Stem Doomed Blanket Objections Stem Cell Ends Justify The Means

Author:Joseph Murray

“Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.”

Ifs Helping Use Answers Dangerous Activity Compare Programming Justify

Author:Martin Fowler

“It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.”

Fun Conclusion Justify

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.”

Knows Philosophy Lying Truth Is Justify

Author:Bob Dylan

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