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• There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race. The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.

  Clement Attlee

  Thinking, Race, Idols

  Clement Richard Attlee (1940). “War comes to Britain: speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. R. Atlee, M.P.”

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• Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree.

  Emperor Norton

  Party, Years, Republican

  "Imperial Decree" dated 12th Day of August 1869, published in The San Francisco Herald, August 13, 1869.

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• God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all eternity those individuals who would, through his preventing [going before] grace, believe, and, through his subsequent grace would persevere by which foreknowledge, he likewise knew those who would not believe and persevere.

  Jacobus Arminius

  God, Religious, Believe

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• Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.

  Steven Johnson

  Memories, Party, Mean

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• Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• We`re looking forward to getting our monitor appointed and we`re looking forward to all of the reforms that will take place under this consent decree.

  Catherine E. Pugh

  Reform, Looking Forward, Consent

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant

  Laozi

  Life, Strong, Army

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• The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  Running, Father, Loss

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• As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wise, Inspiration, Men

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Preface, 1677.

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• Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Opposites, Would Be

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• Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• [Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.

  Thomas Hobbes

  May, Causality, Causes

  Thomas Hobbes (1839). “Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition”, p.11

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• If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and will stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Men, Law, Opposites

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• Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

  Aeschylus

  Home, Heart, Fate

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.235

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• (Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.

  George Will

  Baseball, Book, Weather

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• Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law, Justice, Court

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• There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.

  Empedocles

  Blessed, Long, Utterance

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• Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Mind

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• Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
  [Lat., Vir bonus est quis?
  Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

  Horace

  Father, Men, Law

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• The Lord recently spoke a powerful word to me, 'No more delay!' This word has many applications, which the Lord led me to release as a series of prophetic decrees during Glory of Zion’s recent Head of The Year Conference.

  Dutch Sheets

  Powerful, Zion, Years

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• It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Hands, Heaven, Ruins

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• There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

  Adrian Rogers

  Running, Song, Mean

  Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.17, B&H Publishing Group

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• The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'd—the Sun and Moon forget their old decree, But we in Nature's latest hour, O Lord! will cling to Thee.

  Reginald Heber

  Summer, Spring, Flower

  Reginald Heber (1827). “Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year”, p.97

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• This Day, whate'er the Fates decree;
  Shall still be kept with Joy by me:
  This Day then, let us not be told,
  That you are sick, and I grown old

  Jonathan Swift

  Fate, Sick, Joy

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems”, p.500

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• God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Perseverance, Blessing

  Thomas Watson (1838). “A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture”, p.530

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