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JESUS : If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name? (Unknown source)

JINGOISM : We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. (Wendell Berry, novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, Born 1934)

JOBS : If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)

JOBS : No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom, and when you get there, be really great at sorting mail. (Randy Pausch, U.S. professor of computer science and design, 1960-2008)

JOKES : Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. (Unknown Source)

JOKES : Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy,and literature than any number of dull arguments. (Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

JOURNALISM : The quality of journalism and the quality of democracy go hand-in-hand. (Unknown Source)

JOURNALISM : Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations. (Unknown source)

JOURNALISM : Journalism provides the first draft of history. (Gerard Baker, British-American journalist and editor- in-chief of Wall Street Journal)

JOURNALISM : What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. (Christopher Hitchens, Anglo-American columnist, social critic, and journalist, 1949-2011)

JOURNALISTS : The proper role of the news reporter is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. (Unknown source)

JOURNALISTS : You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. (Jessica Mitford, English author, journalist, and civil rights activist, 1917-1996)

JOY : There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

JOY : Follow your bliss. Don't be afraid and doors will open where you would not have thought there were going to be doors. (Joseph Campbell, U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987)

JOY : A joy that's shared is a joy made double. (English proverb)

JOY : Unshared joy is an unlighted candle. (Spanish proverb)

JUDGES : Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. (Socrates, classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, 470-399 BCE)

JUDGES : No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. (Viktor Frankl, Austrian author, neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

JUDGES : Four things belong to a judge to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. (Socrates, classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, 470-399 BCE)

JUDGMENT : I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

JUDGMENT : Make no judgments where you have no compassion. (Anne McCaffrey, U.S.-Irish writer, 1926-2011)

JUSTICE : Never of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge. (Unknown source)

JUSTICE : Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. (Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971)

JUSTICE : The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. (Unknown Source)

JUSTICE : A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader, U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934Charity: A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader, U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934Incarceration: The U.S. incarcerates more people than China - an authoritarian state - with 4 times the U.S. population. (Mike Lofgren, U.S. author and former U.S. Congressional aide)

JUSTICE : I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

JUSTICE : Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? (Lillian Hellman, U.S. dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism, 1905-1984)

JUSTICE : A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader, U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934)

JUSTICE : The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. (Unknown Source)

JUSTICE : We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Aesop, ancient Greek storyteller, 620-564 BCE)

JUSTICE : Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makesdemocracy necessary. (Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971)

JUSTICE : The arc of the moral universe is long but bends toward justice. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

JUSTICE : As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practice or neglect to practice the primary duties of justice and humanity. (William Henry Seward, U.S. politician who was a determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, 1801-1872)

JUSTICE : The arc of the moral universe is long but bends toward justice. (Unknown Source)

JUSTICE : Never of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge. (Unknown source)