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• Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  James K. Polk

  Country, Gratitude, Blessing

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.

  Georges Cuvier

  Passion, Men, Civilization

  "Rapport historique sur les progrès des sciences naturelles depuis 1789, et sur leur état actuel". Book edited by Georges Cuvier (translated), 1810.

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• Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Keys, Ethos, Common Sense

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Fate, Men

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophy, Mind, Religion

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.105, The Floating Press

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• The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.

  Deborah Tannen

  Power, Doors, Hands

  Deborah Tannen (1986). “That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks relationships”

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• [Harvey] Weinstein appointed himself as the arbiter of your family safety. When was the last time his life was in danger, probably choking on a veal chop. He doesn't need a gun because he has security. He travels in rarified air. His feet never touch the street - feet, mind you, that he can't see because he's a corpulent cretin.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Gun, Feet, Air

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

  Thomas Woods

  Government, Ideas, Judging

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• We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

  Ian Svenonius

  America, Insane, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Voice, Finals, Conflict

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.39, Rajpal & Sons

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• 'An order is an order' was not an excuse to do the wrong thing. You couldn't just blindly follow a government order ... This whole issue of should the Supreme Court be the final arbiter of what is or isn't constitutional, was settled at Nuremberg. People everywhere need to understand and need to follow that.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Government, Order

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• The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

  Jan Timman

  Time, Moving, Half

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• I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Play, Want, Matter

  Speech to the Reichstag, 19 February 1878, in Ludwig Hahn (ed.) 'Fürst Bismarck. Sein politisches Leben und Wirken' vol. 3 (1881) p. 90

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• I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Validation, Taste, Poetic

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• Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

  Laurence Tribe

  Real, Believe, Character

  "Supreme Court in a no-win position on Obamacare?" By David Gergen, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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• The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Truth, Comfort, Belief

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.

  Josiah Warren

  Destiny, Men, Individuality

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• My case clearly demonstrates the need for comprehensive whistleblower protection act reform. If we had had a real process in place, and reports of wrongdoing could be taken to real, independent arbiters rather than captured officials, I might not have had to sacrifice so much to do what at this point even the President seems to agree needed to be done.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Taken, Independent

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• I think Americans suspect, without even being able to articulate it, that we're at the end of the American century; that we're at the end of the 100 or 125 or 150 years when we were the undisputed arbiter and leader of the world.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Years, Leader

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• The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Meals, Agents, Soup

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• We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Moving, Thinking, Imagination

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.5, Pearson Education

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• It's one thing to maintain that upper-income earners should pay higher tax rates because they are better able to shoulder the burden for essential government services. But it's constitutional blasphemy to claim that the tax code should be used as a weapon against the wealthy and that the state should be the tyrannical arbiter of how income is distributed.

  David Limbaugh

  Government, Essentials, Income

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• Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

  Vaclav Havel

  Thrones, Modern, Sole

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• The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Karma, Destiny, Men

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• Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.

  Max Kozloff

  Memories, Objectivity, Perception

  Max Kozloff (1979). “Photography & Fascination: Essays”

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