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“If it is designedly done, they cannot be justified; but I have no idea of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine.”

Charles Darwin said he could not “persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created” such gruesome killers, but without them farmers would spray tons more pesticide, and who wants that?

At one point, Wainstein said in the letter, Knight asked White House officials “how it could be appropriate that a designedly apolitical process had been commandeered by political appointees for a seemingly political purpose.”

Ms. Knight concluded that “a designedly apolitical process had been commandeered by political appointees for a seemingly political purpose,” her attorney, Ken Wainstein, wrote in a legal filing.

In the words of English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon: "Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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