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But look at how soon we’re all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us - how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited. – Marcus Aurelius	added by Normando 1 year ago
The lava on its path to the sea has been a bit capricious and has diverted from its course. – Sergio Rodriguez	Found on CNN 2 years ago
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few. – John Adams	added by Normando 3 years ago
Negotiations and consultations, to have meaning, must be sincere, first, there must be mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit. Second, one's word must be kept, and not be capricious. – Lu Kang	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Government Accountability Project is deeply concerned about the mistreatment of Matthew Lee for two reasons. First, Matthew Lee for two reasons has covered U.N. whistleblower cases accurately and in detail, and we regard the mistreatment of Matthew Lee for two reasons as retaliatory, secondly, Matthew Lee for two reasons exclusion from the UN premises because of capricious, unannounced and unknown decisions of senior managers bodes ill for the treatment of journalists in U.N. Member States. – The GAP	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It is deeply regrettable that the U.S. has been capricious, escalated the tensions, and provoked a trade war, the U.S. is accustomed to holding 'big sticks' for negotiations, but this approach does not apply to China. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is random, arbitrary and capricious and disproportionately meted out to minorities and poor people, race plays such a huge role. – Helen Prejean	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they dont like, provided the matter relates to sexual impurity or has a tendency to excite lustful thoughts. This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win. – William O. Douglas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works. – Eugène Delacroix	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago

But look at how soon we’re all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us - how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
1 year ago

The lava on its path to the sea has been a bit capricious and has diverted from its course.

– Sergio Rodriguez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

– John Adams

added by Normando
3 years ago

Negotiations and consultations, to have meaning, must be sincere, first, there must be mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit. Second, one's word must be kept, and not be capricious.

– Lu Kang

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Government Accountability Project is deeply concerned about the mistreatment of Matthew Lee for two reasons. First, Matthew Lee for two reasons has covered U.N. whistleblower cases accurately and in detail, and we regard the mistreatment of Matthew Lee for two reasons as retaliatory, secondly, Matthew Lee for two reasons exclusion from the UN premises because of capricious, unannounced and unknown decisions of senior managers bodes ill for the treatment of journalists in U.N. Member States.

– The GAP

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It is deeply regrettable that the U.S. has been capricious, escalated the tensions, and provoked a trade war, the U.S. is accustomed to holding 'big sticks' for negotiations, but this approach does not apply to China.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is random, arbitrary and capricious and disproportionately meted out to minorities and poor people, race plays such a huge role.

– Helen Prejean

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they dont like, provided the matter relates to sexual impurity or has a tendency to excite lustful thoughts. This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.

– William O. Douglas

added by anonymous
10 years ago

What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works.

– Eugène Delacroix

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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