#arbitrary

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

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

#definition #else #i #like #personally

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

— Rudy Rucker

#characters #fiction #fiction writers #happens #into

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

— J. Philippe Rushton

#argue #concept #race #subjective

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

#certain #characters #compare #feels #finding

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

#act #arbitrary #atheists #could #creation

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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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

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

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