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• Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

  George W. Bush

  Freedom, Hopeful, Allies

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Evil, Silence, Suffering

  Ravi Zacharias (2008). “End of Reason”, p.60, Harper Collins

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• I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Giving, Way, Companionship

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.139, Feral House

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• All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

  Stephen Hawking

  Atheist, Way, Universe

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

  Ving Rhames

  Acting, English Teacher, Performing Arts

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• It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

  Henry M. Morris

  Religion, Doe, Impossible

  Dr. Henry M. Morris (1974). “Scientific Creationism”, p.5, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Frustration, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.212, Penguin

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• Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Party, College

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.76, Random House

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• Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

  Mason Cooley

  Wit

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• Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Home, Adventure, Men

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• The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Pregnancy, Holiday, Chinese

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• Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

  Mark Twain

  Mind, Naked, World

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• There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, War, Rain

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Multitasking, Distracted, Persons

  "Margaret Atwood On Progress, Fear And Social Media". Interview with Claire Sibonney, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2013.

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• How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?

  Jonathan Lethem

  Summer, Thinking, Sky

  Jonathan Lethem (2003). “The Fortress of Solitude”, Large Print Press

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• I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.

  Ellie Goulding

  Stuff, Designer, Expensive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Army, Epic, Library

  Patricia A. McKillip (2005). “Alphabet Of Thorn”, p.68, Penguin

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• Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

  Maya Angelou

  Growing Up, Differences, Long

  "Maya Angelou: In disaster, humanity shines". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2011.

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• The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

  Mark Twain

  Modesty, Reason, Conventions

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• It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Hungry, Immortal, Knows

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• Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Happy Life, Emotional

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.212, Penguin

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• The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide.

  Rudolph Rummel

  War, Government, Desire

  "Death by Government". Book by Rudolph Rummel, pp. 1-2, 1994.

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• It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

  Cassandra Clare

  Importance

  Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Runaway Queen”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to continue fighting here on earth." "I don't understand why he had to fight. He was already in heaven." "True. But he wasn't content to serve. He wanted more." "He had all he could ask for, didn't he?" Ann asks. "Exactly." Miss Moore states. "He had to ask. He was dependent upon someone else's whim. It's a terrible thing to have no power of one's own. To be denied.

  Libba Bray

  Angel, Fighting, Missing

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• Like I said before, I don't know how helpful Inez will be, " she explained. "She's very eccentric and controlled by her whims. If she likes you, she might tell you something. If she doesn't, well..." Ms. Terwilliger shrugged. "Then maybe we'll have time for photo ops." "Score," said Adrian. When I shot him a look, he added quickly, "But of course she'll like you.

  Richelle Mead

  Looks, Might, Eccentric

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Bloodlines: The Fiery Heart”, p.49, Penguin UK

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