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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.


George Jean Nathan


#above #arbitrary #estate #often #principles

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.


Ted Nelson


#any #arbitrary #computers #deal #information

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


#belongs #country #country music #criticism #divisiveness

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


J. Philippe Rushton


#argue #concept #race #subjective

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. 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


#certain #characters #compare #feels #finding

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.


John Bates Clark


#coercive #conform #decree #distribution #element

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.


Amy Heckerling


#arbitrary #censors #completely #destroyed #fair

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


#arbitrary #aside #believe #conception #even

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


Frederick Law Olmsted


#arbitrary #arbitrary power #destroy #humane #irresistibly

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.


John Rawls


#arbitrary power #bad #bad man #desires #evil






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