Quotes by Arbitrary I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God. Ronald Reagan arbitrary liberty philosophy Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy. Roxane Gay arbitrary worthy knows According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. Roy Blount, Jr. scholar arbitrary relation I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that? Roy Blount, Jr. wince arbitrary thinking I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh. Russell Brand breathing arbitrary thinking Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours. Simone de Beauvoir arbitrary existential destiny Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. Stephen Colbert arbitrary discipline kids A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations. Stephen Hawking arbitrary class two There is something so arbitrary about prizes. Steve Toltz prize arbitrary In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political. Susan Sontag arbitrary definitions political They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. Ted Nelson arbitrary information numbers There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting. Teresa Nielsen Hayden arbitrary stories interesting Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide. Thomas Pynchon arbitrary lines zero Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go. Thomas Sowell arbitrary rights water Fascism is [...] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state. Tibor R. Machan arbitrary fascism states If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback. Thomas Sowell arbitrary vision civilization We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience. Thomas Jefferson arbitrary law giving I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified. Tom Robbins arbitrary personality running We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena. Umberto Eco arbitrary real links As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness. Vimala Thakar arbitrary understanding essence «123456789»
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