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One who lacks a sense of justice lacks certain fundamental attitudes and capacities included under the notion of humanity. Now the moral feelings are admittedly unpleasant, in some extended sense of unpleasant; but there is no way for us to avoid a liability to them without disfiguring ourselves. This liability is the price of love and trust, of friendship and affection, and of devotion to institutions and traditions from which we have benefited and which serve the general interests of mankind... by understanding what it would be like not to have a sense of justice - that it would be to lack part of our humanity too - we are led to accept our having this sense.

John Rawls in A Theory of Justice (1971)
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Much More Aware

I seek something...
Recogizable as divine.
Not a liability,
Anyone can find to tolerate
As companionship.
To occupy one's mine,
With time limited!
I have had that in abundance before.
And have donated my own ignorance,
I had once ignored...
Pursuing uselessness.

I seek something...
Recogizable as divine.
Not a liability,
Anyone can find to tolerate
As companionship.
To occupy one's mine,
With time limited!
And now that I find...

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

quote by Richard Byrd
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Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

quote by Ken Salazar
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Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

quote by John Ensign
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I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

quote by H.L. Hunt
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For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

quote by Countee Cullen
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However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

quote by Tim Murphy
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Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.

quote by Jim Ryun
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The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

quote by Howard Aiken
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