Arbitrarily Quotes

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Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily… — Francoise Sagan
When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the… — Gina McCarthy
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that… — Gerhard Richter
One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men. — Phyllis Schlafly
I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and… — Matt Groening
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. — Mary Wollstonecraft
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice… — Aldous Huxley
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that weâ€™ll always have more… — Michael Cunningham
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an… — Aldous Huxley
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. — Graham Greene
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events… — Bertrand Russell
It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality — Amartya Sen
My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that… — Michael J. Fox
For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second… — Russell Brand
I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled â€œenemy? — Sylvia Plath
But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who… — Francis Schaeffer
Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily. — Nathanael West
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind… — Thomas Sowell

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