Justice . . . is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Epicurus
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AL GOLDSTEIN He will hurt or harm someone. Each of us believes that justice has been served.
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JEF RASKIN I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
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GARY F EVANS... Part of me wants justice for this. Part of me wants to never cause harm to another.
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PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
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NADIA BOLZ-WEBER Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
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CONSTANCE WU That kind of approach, which is not based on good information, will cause more harm with no added be...
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1 Start where you are with what you have
2 Try not to hur...
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Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy.....
.....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,
K...
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