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Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. ↗

— Michael Behe

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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. ↗

— Kary Mullis

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The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ↗

— George Washington

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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

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

— Marshall McLuhan

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While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect. ↗

— Johann Most

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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. ↗

— Ted Nelson

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