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If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
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We are all innocent, until we die.Anthony Liccione
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A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.Kamand Kojouri
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Don’t say to yourself, ‘Everyone argues! ’ to justify and normalise your fighting, when the most natural thing is to love.Kamand Kojouri
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Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.Cathy Burnham Martin
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Right now though, there is little that concerns me more than the impending assault on the human rights and equality of women and the pink community in South Africa. Right now there are events afoot in this country which justify my concern.Christina Engela
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One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.Cortney S. Warren
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Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.Anthony Liccione
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Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that might have been less selfishly undertaken, or something that would test us, or something that had better be momentous, to justify such a leap into the dark. The torment and guilt - the torment of having the loved one go, the guilt of being the loved one gone - comes into my fiction as it did and does in my life. And most of all the guilt then was because it was true: I had left to arrive at some future and secret joy, at what was unknown, and what was no in New York, waiting to be discovered. My joy was connected with my writing; that was as much as I knew. .Eudora Welty
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The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all. .Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselvesHaruki Murakami
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It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses!Israelmore Ayivor
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Integrity involves the ability to stand straight when you tell your truth, and still stand straight when the other person comes to talk!Israelmore Ayivor
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Maintain your integrity! Live life in such a way that when another person tells his or her truth, you'll not be committed for blame.Israelmore Ayivor
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The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.Israelmore Ayivor
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The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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If you do not understand the Golden Rule, which is the most important law in the universe, then you are in trouble. All other rules in your holy books combined – are not as valuable as the ONE Golden Rule. Take two minutes to learn the most crucial law in life. Killing another human comes with the highest penalty, regardless of how you justify it. All life is sacred.Suzy Kassem
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We will always have enough reasons to justify what we believe and what we do not believe.M.F. Moonzajer
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To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Life is made of moments. and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact. Skipping class in favor of a taste of freedom, picking a prom dress because of the way it transforms you into a princess in the mirror. Even the nights you steal away from an open window, tiptoe silent to the end of the driveway, where darkened headlights and the pull of something unknown beckon. These are all small choices, really. Insignificant as soon as they’re made. Innocent.But then. Then there’s a different kind of moment. One when things are irrevocably changed by a choice we make. A moment we will play endlessly in our minds on lonely nights and empty days. One we’ll search repeatedly for some indication that what we chose was right, some small sign that tells us the truth isn’t nearly as awful as it feels. Or as awful as anyone would think if they knew. So we explain it to ourselves, justify it enough to sleep. And then we bury it deep, so deep we can almost pretend it never happened. But as much as we wish it were different, the truth is, our worlds are sometimes balanced on choices we make and the secrets we keep. .Jessi Kirby
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God does not require a perfect, sinless life to have fellowship with Him, but He does require that we be serious about holiness, that we grieve over sin in our lives instead of justifying it, and that we earnestly pursue holiness as a way of life.Jerry Bridges
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There are no sides in suicide.Anthony Liccione
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The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The problem that I think I have with God is often not a problem at all. Rather, it is most frequently a tired misperception where I have made God what I need Him to be in order to justify my rejection of Him.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?Christina Engela
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No purpose, no science, only love alone can justify and explain the mysteries of creation.Debasish Mridha
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I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.Taylor Nadeau
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That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out.Thomm Quackenbush
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The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.Anthony Liccione
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The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.Sebastian Fitzek
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But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""' They?' Who are 'they?'""I don't know. Just people."" That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?John Connolly
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I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I have to put in all this time to make up for the vacation we’re going to take this summer.” I bet if I asked your kids, they’d say that they’d rather have you home every night to play with them than the weeklong summer trip to the lake where you’re stressed out the whole time anyways.Daniel Willey
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Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics didn't justify changing his lifelong commitment.Craig Groeschel
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Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.Reza Aslan