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“You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual beings of the same species with perfect equality. ...for it is an act of great and perfect goodness that He gave us existence; and the creation of the controlling faculty in animals is a proof of His mercy towards them, as has been shown by us.”

Has Beens Individual Perfect Animal Existence Creation Creatures Goodness Mercy Species Proof Treated Proportion Faculty Mercy Of God

Author:Maimonides

“How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!”

Feelings Individual Safe Mercy Aspiration Pockets Desirable Discretion Very Sad Confiding

Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.”

Stills Individual Mercy Shells Urban

Author:Julia Kent

“God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.”

Persons Individual Mercy Response Sovereign Whim

Author:R. C. Sproul

“Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.”

States Law Individual Effects Authority Gun Mercy Locals Tyrants Gun Control Invaders

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Essential to receiving divine forgiveness are personal, individual recognition and acceptance of our Father's mercy, made available to us by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ and a renewed covenant to obey the principles of the gospel.”

Made Father Jesus Individual Christ Principles Sacrifice Acceptance Divine Essentials Jesus Christ Mercy Available Recognition Receiving Our Father Covenant

Author:Ronald E. Poelman

“It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals and minorities are at the mercy of unconstrained majorities hardly constitutes freedom in any meaningful sense.”

Way Political Individual Democracy Mercy Majority Philosopher Meaningful Minorities Logical Mainstream Absurdity Commentators

Author:Keith Preston

“The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.”

Has Beens Self Individual Social Revolution Mercy West Insight East Void Social Revolution

Book:Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries

Source: Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries

“The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.”

“How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.”