#arbitrary

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

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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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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it. ↗

— William H. Seward

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Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ↗

— George Ryan

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