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LINKLETTER: Well, I tell you, one of the problems with that statement, just say no, and I know Nancy and I think it was a wonderful thing to say, but the problem there is the word just.
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The silly-creature ( "132") replied, "Oh, I know nothing about him, but I am weary [of] always hearing him called the just."
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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It doesn’t seem like they are far enough along to begin principal photography just yet they aren’t willing to announce the film’s title just.
Judd Apatow Producing Kimberly Peirce and John Carney | /Film 2009
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And under no universal code of law could its cause be called just.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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In truth, a man who renders everyone their due because he fears the gallows, acts under the sway and compulsion of others, and cannot be called just.
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But a man who does the same from a knowledge of the true reason for laws and their necessity, acts from a firm purpose and of his own accord, and is therefore properly called just.
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But although I have no doubt you're going to write a wonderful story with these books, these titles just... don't DO it for me...
Titles yet again, and a signpost Glenda Larke 2007
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A man is not just if he carries a matter by violence; no, he who distinguishes both right and wrong, who is learned and leads others, not by violence, but by law and equity, and who is guarded by the law and intelligent, he is called just.
The Dhammapada 2003
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An envious man will vote against Aristides because he is called the just.
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The distributive goal for the policy of wage settlement would be to achieve a division of the product between wages and profits, such that the general level of profits throughout the field of industry (the basis of calculation of which will be considered at a later point) would approximate the figure defined as just.
The Settlement of Wage Disputes Herbert Feis 1932
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