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- I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have… — Richard Dawkins
- There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. — William Hazlitt
- Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. — Edward Gibbon
- Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not… — P.J. O'Rourke
- Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman
- I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. — John Cheever
- Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns… — Gerald Heaney
- Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets… — Walter Bagehot
- Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer,… — William Hurt
- The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. — Christopher Hitchens
- Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes… — Nick Harkaway