Quotes about arbitrarily (16 Quotes)


    It is not only these lawyers who have suffered the consequences of exercising their right to freedom of assembly and expression. In the past week over 2,000 people have been arbitrarily detained and hundreds injured as a result of excessive use of force by the security forces.

    It cant be done, engineers might tell him. It has to be done, Watson would order, and often it could be. With this approach Watson brought out the best in his menin his engineers, for example. He believed that engineering, like salesmanship, depended not only on laws but on will. For him the first principle of science, as well as the first principle of the world of men, was enthusiasm. Build it, he would order his engineers arbitrarily. And when they did, the machine often seemed to be a triumph of Dale Carnegie over Newton.



    What if somebody decided to name you Hortense, and you always hated that name The name isn't you. It's something somebody else picked for you. We were named arbitrarily by a committee in 1951.






    Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent

    Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves all men are born free, all have equal rights never should we lose sight of those principles according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.

    Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.


    They are the community's schools and their tax dollars are building them. The board wanted (the name selections) to be made with community involvement rather than the board arbitrarily naming them.

    It is remarkable how much mediocrity we live with, surrounding ourselves with daily reminders that the average is acceptable. Our world suffers from terminal normality. Take a moment to assess all of the things around you that promote your being 'average'. These are the things that keep you powerless to go beyond a 'limit' you arbitrarily set for yourself. The first step to having what your really want is the removal of everything in your environment that represents mediocrity, removing those things that are limiting. One way is to surround yourself with friends who ask more of you than you do.

    Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.



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