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Another source of the error in question is to be found in the ambiguity of the term justice.
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1843
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To say that Layla Kiffin is an internet phenomenon doesn't do the term justice.
unknown title 2009
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I think that we will realize, we will realize what it is -- what I call justice.
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It is by our reflective and reasoning powers, with which we seem to be exclusively endowed, that we know that it is injurious, first to others and then to ourselves, to resist the social instinct which governs us, and which we call justice.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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You can now persevere in pitilessness, an essential in one who would support what we call justice.
The Emancipated George Gissing 1880
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The irony is that in the '50s and' 60s, even when Thurgood Marshall is approved to be on the Second Circuit and in the Supreme Court, the Democratic Party itself contains the really, I'd say, forces that are against what I call justice.
unknown title 2009
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LAWRENCE: Its a familiar story around the country - the government is corrupt and ineffective, the Taliban dispense timely and very harsh punishments they call justice.
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LAWRENCE: Its a familiar story around the country - the government is corrupt and ineffective, the Taliban dispense timely and very harsh punishments they call justice.
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I agree; these a-holes should be sent to the general population... then they'll really get the meaning of the word justice.
One of the most morally repugnant stories I've ever read Ed Gorman 2009
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Therefore I tear at your webs, that your rage may lure you out of your lie-holes and your revenge may leap out from behind your word justice.
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