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This quotation examines the core nature of Justice as articulated by Barbara Liskov. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Justice provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Barbara Liskov

Barbara Jane Liskov is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the introduction of abstract data types and the accompanying principle of data abstraction, along with the Liskov substitution principle, which applies these ideas to object-oriented programming, subtyping, and inheritance. Her work was recognized with the 2008 Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science.

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"Modularity based on abstraction is the way things get done."

— Barbara Liskov
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"If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?"

— Al Sharpton
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"I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing."

— Tracey Gold
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"I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave."

— Laura Haddock
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"Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets."

— Lawrence Eagleburger
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