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• Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault
• We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they… — Thomas Jefferson
• Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker
• Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. — Stephen Colbert
• Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. — Michael Behe
• We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all… — William Hazlitt

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