“Just because something’s damaged doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be treated with respect”

Part 5, Chapter 1 (p. 228)
Artifact (1985)

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

2015, Remarks to the Kenyan People (July 2015)
Context: Every country and every culture has traditions that are unique and help make that country what it is. But just because something is a part of your past doesn’t make it right. It doesn’t mean that it defines your future. [... ] Just because something is a tradition doesn’t make it right.

Source: Water for Elephants

Oui interview (1979)
Context: Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.

Source: Tangled Up In You

Whispering to fellow House Representative Jeff Flake in response to President George W. Bush&#x27;s inaugural speech at his first inauguration — https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/03/mike-pence-jeff-flake-republican-party-friendship-216208 (January 20, 2001) <br class="br">2000s

"The Phantom of Kansas" (1976), The World Treasury of Science Fiction (ed. David Hartwell), p. 375