"The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case."

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Source : 1974 Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms (rev edn).

George C. Homans

#Running Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.”
“Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.”
“I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.”
“The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that.”

Source : "Is It Too Late to Stop the Warming?" by Ned Potter, abcnews.go.com. March 26, 2006.
“Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.”
“Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.”
“First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law”

Source : "Surfer on the new wave" by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.
“I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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