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The case and hood are lowered, making the whole thing slicker, and there's a new "Zufall" ( "randomness") button which apparently stands for "the freedom from mechanical constraints".
SlashGear 2009
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In German we would call this coincidence “Zufall”.
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For even the casual reader of Kleist, this question of Zufall will sound decisive.
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In the case (Fall) of this tale, a Fall occasioned by "accident" (Zufall) leads to an unhappy "incident" (Vorfall) with a prospective buyer and so ultimately to the entire castle falling down.
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If the point, however, is that nobody in this story can stay in bed, this may be because the Marquis's initial order to the beggarwoman was only made because he happened to walk into the room by "chance" (Zufall).
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It comes as no surprise, then, that Zufall again has a role to play as the Marquis and Marquise lie down for the last time in the haunted room.
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Zufall in der Philosophie des Aristoteles (Basel, 1942).
INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 1968
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Germany can take no chances for the moment, for only "Wer sich regiert, der ist mit Zufall fertig."
Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886
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Dieser regierte, bis er starb, 366 (sic) Jahre, Seine Nackkommen, heisen Brahminen Sein Sohn et Bahbud unter dessen Regierung das Nerdspiel (Gildermeister ubersetzt duodecim scriptorum ludus) ein bloss auf Zufall und nicht auf Scharfsinn beruhendes
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Und auch diese Fortbildung steht unter demselben Gesetz der Erzeugung aus innerer Kraft und Nothwendigkeit, unabhängig von Zufall und individueller Willkür, wie die ursprüngliche Entstehung. —
A Lecture on the Study of History John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868
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