"Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive."

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Source : Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press

Thomas Nixon Carver

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“My son's 18, 142 pounds and hits it 40 (yards) by me. Instead of to the pin, he's lasering the distance between me and him.”
“Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules â€” and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.”
“The men who go out the scientists who go out, they have so much fun on the way that when they get there well it's done. So they're looking for another thing. You see the objective may remain the same - the search - but you must get lost on the way, get stupid to my mind, this is what you do in theatre; a team of people go out to look for something, they find, maybe, something else.”
“For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.”

Source : "Interview: the Cast of Crank". Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. August 29, 2006.
“Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.”
“I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.146, Scholastic Inc.
“Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of October, I accidentally dug up one while turning over some garden earth. I was surprised, naturally, when one of the clods heaved over on its die and there, in some annoyance, sat at toad.”
“Few men know all the ill they do.”

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