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

— Abbie Hoffman

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The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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

— Adrian Lyne

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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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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

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

— George Jean Nathan

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

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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

— Rudy Rucker

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

— J. Philippe Rushton

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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

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