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The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
Quite rightly, the public expects to see forces serving their communities, not chasing arbitrary targets.
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.
Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
It's easier for me to remember things based on the releases of albums. The year is such an arbitrary thing.
Fundamentally, adopting rules without any estimate of the impact is the height of arbitrary decision-making.
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.
Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.
Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.
It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.
Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.
The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!
Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
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.
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.
the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.
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.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.
Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.
The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Manufacturing evidence to justify arbitrary, politically motivated detentions is a common tool of the illegitimate former Maduro regime.
Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but I also think it's totally arbitrary.
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.