#arbitrary

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#arbitrary #i #love #make #movie

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#arbitrary #childhood #cruelly #false #into

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

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

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#arbitrary #decided #i #know #more

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

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#believe #cut #date #deployment #free

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

— J. Philippe Rushton

#argue #concept #race #subjective

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects. ↗

— Nate Silver

#build #choices #dealing #example #financial

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #arbitrary #china #clearly #crush

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

— John Rawls

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