Arbitrary Quotes
Word Lists
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values
Marshall McLuhan
Keywords: all :: and :: arbitrary :: artificial :: exist :: invest :: lives :: media :: our :: perceptions :: to :: values :: withSubject: Media QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The secret is to know what you`re doing. And then every other person will notice that you know. No matter what I`m wearing, I try to always make it look casually, but never arbitrary. Never ostentatious. - On her style secrets.
Sienna Miller
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While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.
Alice Schwarzer
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What we don`t need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn`t.
Charley Pride
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We don`t think that arbitrary caps work well. The costs of the local tax burdens have risen because the largest part of the school budgets are paid by local taxes. The problem is not at the local level.
Anthony Mosa
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Unless this is done, we shall be liable to be ruled by an arbitrary and capricious armed tyranny, whose word and will must be law.
Alexander Surikov
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To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
Frank Darabont
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To many, the word coercion implies arbitrary decisions of distant and irresponsible bureaucrats; but this is not a necessary part of its meaning.
Alex Hamilton
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
Andrew Arrington
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These charges are nothing but an easy money-spinner for the banks. Charges should be fair and reflect the costs involved - not, as they are now, an arbitrary figure picked to make the most money out of unsuspecting customers.
Doug Taylor
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The point is that you could structure this arbitrary information in any way. Well, given that, now we can write text that can go in all directions.
Andrew Arrington
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Teacher tenure is a myth, ... California teachers only have basic due process rights so they aren`t fired for arbitrary reasons like speaking out on behalf of textbooks for their students. Proposition 74 just adds millions in costs to the current evaluati...
Ann Jackson
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Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
Amanda Silverman
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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Rudy Rucker
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Over the past year there has arisen an apparent absence of fear of punishment in regards to the arbitrary divulging of classified information.
Allenstown Capt. Shaun Mulholland
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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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It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents` generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents` generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the ...
Peter Fonda
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It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
Andrew Norwood
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I don`t know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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I didn`t want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
Albert Guerard
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I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
Anabella Hedman
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Hard data is behind boundary changes. It is not an arbitrary decision at all.
Steve Adams
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Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
Alan Skrainka
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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.
Alex Montgomery
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Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
Jacques Lacan
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Kary Mullis
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I learned in the last few years that it`s really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my appro...
Moby
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It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the ...
Adm C. Turner Joy
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James
