“Just because you refuse to acknowledge something, refuse to look at it or think about it, doesn’t mean it’s not there, that it doesn’t affect you and the choices you make in your life.”

— Rachel Gibson

Source: Tangled Up In You

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American writer 1961

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

“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.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

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.

“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“Let me tell you, young man—the dirty little secret of democracy is that just because you get a vote, doesn’t mean you get your choice.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 3 (p. 51)

“But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Variant: Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

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.