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The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. ↗

— John Rawls

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

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But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film. ↗

— Frank Darabont

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Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers. ↗

— James T. Walsh

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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be. ↗

— Edmund White

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I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

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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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