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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.
the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels.
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.
It's easier for me to remember things based on the releases of albums. The year is such an arbitrary thing.
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Quite rightly, the public expects to see forces serving their communities, not chasing arbitrary targets.
Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of mathematics.
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
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.
[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
Fundamentally, adopting rules without any estimate of the impact is the height of arbitrary decision-making.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.
I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.
Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
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.
'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule
I don't believe some arbitrary line should preclude parents getting the best education possible for that child.
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.
Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.
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.
Manufacturing evidence to justify arbitrary, politically motivated detentions is a common tool of the illegitimate former Maduro regime.
When I do solo material I definitely tend to overthink it. I make a lot of rules for myself that are a little bit arbitrary and... it's just painful.
The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to arbitrary and unreviewable detention and surveillance.
We're really into combining lots of different styles into one song: that's normal for us. It might seem arbitrary but we listen to a lot of music that does that.
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.
Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.
Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.
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.
