Quotes with decreed

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• I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

  New Scientist (26 april 2007)

  Stephen Hawking
  English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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• Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

  Marquis de Sade
  French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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• Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

  Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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• The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

  Hannah More
  British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• persecutor
• intervene
• miserable
• creatures
• pronounce
• conceived

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