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decrees
«Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.»
«Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.»
«Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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Society
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codified, codifying, decreeing, decrees, destroying, do away with, inferior, inferiority, superiority
«Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are»
«Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Circumstances
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by laws, circumstance, decrees, obeyed, policies, regardless
«Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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behavior, decreeing, decrees, heartless, judicial, legislate, legislated, legislates, may not, morality, regulated, regulates, regulating, restrain, restraining, restrains
«The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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decreeing, decrees, fatal, free will, incompatible, in the least, provided, providence, restrict, restricted, restricting, restricts
«Let's take the instant by the forward top; for we are old, and on our quickest decrees, the inaudible and noiseless foot of time steals ere we can effect them»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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decreeing, decrees, inaudible, instant, noiseless, quickest, steals, The Forward