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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard. ↗

— William Hurt

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ↗

— George Ryan

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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. ↗

— John Cheever

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