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«Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.»
Author: Fernand Braudel
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abhors, capricious, deceptive, short-term, social event, social science, social sciences, the Social Sciences, virtually
«A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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Chance
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believes, capricious, consistent, destiny
«I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.»
Author: John Cheever
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capricious
«As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.»
«Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of pestilential winds, Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms»
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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capricious, Constitution of the, gratification, implant, implanting, implants, indicates
«The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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capricious, Christian, cruel, terrific, The Christian, unjust, vindictive
«A fickle and capricious woman.»
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