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arbitrary
«The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.»
Author: Stephen Hawking
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
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arbitrary, divinely, divinely inspired, gradual, History of, history of science, inspired, manner, realization, reflect, underlie, underlies, underlying
«The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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arbitrary, enlightened, imperceptibly, lull, lulled, lulling, lulls, respecting, serving, successor, surest
«Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Patriotism
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arbitrary, estate, patriotism, real estate, veneration
«Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.»
«It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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arbitrary, childhood, cruelly, middle age, play false, regrets, the play, utterly
«If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Achievement,
Culture,
Gifts,
Mankind,
Value
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arbitrary, contrasting, diverse, fabric, fitting, fittings, gamut, human culture, potentialities, potentiality, richer, rich in, weave
«Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Law and lawyers,
Power
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arbitrary, enmities, enmity
«This has given me the greatest trouble and still does: to realize that what things are called is incomparably more important than what they are. The reputation, name, and appearance, the usual measure and weight of a thing, what it counts for -- originally almost always wrong and arbitrary, thrown over things like a dress and altogether foreign to their nature and even to their skin -- all this grows from generation unto generation, merely because people believe in it, until it gradually grows to be part of the thing and turns into its very body: what at first was appearance becomes in the end, almost invariably, the essence and is effective as such!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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arbitrary, body weight, evening dress, first appearance, incomparably, invariably, originally
«Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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arbitrary, conversing, Death itself, demonic, epileptic, Epileptics, extinction, impulse, intervals, level of consciousness, making love, meal, mood, On the Level, physical death, physical force, pushing, range, resembles, sensation, sexuality, sudden, sudden death, taboo, taboos, tamed, voluptuous, yearning
«I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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arbitrary, besides, commons, compelled, countryman, countrymen, freest, houses, House of Lords, lords, princes, something else, sorry, the House of Commons