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The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together. — Vint Cerf

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us. — Laura Mullen

People will love you or hate you for being different, but who's to say which way it'll go? You never know. It's completely arbitrary. — Jenny Han

'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing. — Moby

Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ... [is] outside the domain of mathematics. — Emile Borel

The unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives. — Helen McCloy

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

We might think that by tossing a ball we initiate an action, but this is merely an arbitrary point in a beginningless line of action. — Steve Hagen

Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules. — Alexandra Robbins

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. — Francoise Sagan

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective. — J. Philippe Rushton

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. — Kary Mullis

The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror. — Laird Barron

The essential prerequisite for an acceptable exit strategy is a sustainable outcome, not an arbitrary time limit. — Richard Caplan

Why should the arbitrary assignment of genital parts determine whether or not you want to be with a person? — David Levithan

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time. — Elizabeth Blackburn

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power. — Junot Diaz

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age ... — Jonathan Swift

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being
arbitrary. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule — Donald A. Norman

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. — Roger L'Estrange

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns. — Stephen Kinzer

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it. — Rebecca West

Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it. — Jerzy Kosinski

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love. — Adrian Lyne

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. — Abbie Hoffman

In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power. — Victor Klemperer

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. — George Washington

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. — John Tillotson

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams

Fate was faceless, life arbitrary, a tale told by an idiot. — Emma Donoghue

As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can't be just, be arbitrary — William S. Burroughs

How arbitrary, this distinction of time. How like humans to have to cut the infinite down to something they could believe they controlled. — J.R. Ward

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say. — Felicity Jones

[...] and if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty - they will prove that they have less mind than man. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless. — Idries Shah

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. — Francine Pascal

The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises. — Paul Scott

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. — Marshall McLuhan

A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance. — Will Bowen

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity. — Edmund Burke

It just makes me mad. All the stupid arbitrary shit."
"It makes you want to overthrow the world."
"On a daily basis. — David Levithan

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. — Wyndham Lewis

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. — Herman Melville

There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy. — Joseph Campbell

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray De La Mettrie

Set up an arbitrary set of rules and then follow them slavishly. — Errol Morris

The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary. — Ferdinand De Saussure

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you - if only temporarily. — Matthew Quick

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film. — Frank Darabont

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. — Annie Besant

[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel. — Liz Curtis Higgs

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power. — Thomas Paine

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. — Kenzo Tange

I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged. — George R R Martin

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers. — Terry Teachout

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage. — Mark McKinnon

nothing is arbitrary in this whole world, there is a good reason behind each and everything.... — Nikhil Kumar

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! — John Quincy Adams

The energic value of a cause is never abolished by positing an arbitrary and rational goal: that is always a makeshift. — C. G. Jung

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice. — Anthony Lewis

The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions. We'd — Greg Egan

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it. — Douglas Kennedy

in the absence of a biblical morality a new elite will always come forward to dictate arbitrary absolutes to society — Francis A. Schaeffer

Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without. — James R. Schlesinger

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives. — Khaled Hosseini

There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages. — Guy Deutscher

Rejection was arbitrary. Rejection was survivable. — Frank Bruni

Fascism is [ ... ] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state. — Tibor R. Machan

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others. — Jean-Baptiste Say

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully. — Vincent Van Gogh

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary. — David Hume

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney

Suppose the arbitrary violence that is bound into action shapes us. — Aaron Apps

How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact! — Mark Twain

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours ... — Simone De Beauvoir

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. — Alexandre Dumas

Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths. — Harold Bloom

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas? — Andre Breton

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. — Martha Beck

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. — Lysander Spooner

Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king — Francis A. Schaeffer

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. — Alexander Hamilton

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it. — George Meyer

A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates. — Bernard Bloch

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

To choose one type of music at the exclusion of another would feel kind of sad and arbitrary. — Moby

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. — Ludwig Von Mises

Witchcraft tied up loose ends, accounting for the arbitrary, the eerie, and the unneighborly. — Stacy Schiff

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions ... — Farley Mowat