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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.
by Charley Pride (Athlete, American , born in 1938) keywords: arbitrary, belongs, country, criticism, divisiveness, each, judgement, music, need, other, public , some The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
by John Rawls (Educator, American , born in 1921) keywords: arbitrary, bad, desires, evil, injustice, love, man, moves , power 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.
by Rick Renzi (Politician, American , born in 1958) keywords: arbitrary, believe, cut, date, deployment, free, helping, illusion, measured, overnight, permanent, progress, run, set, should, success, unending, want, withdrawal, without , yet Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
by David Ricardo (Economist, British , born in 1772) keywords: arbitrary, bestowed, capital, commodities, dependent, employed, gold, intrinsic, labour, mines, other, produce, quantity, scarcity, silver, their, them, value , which Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
by Rudy Rucker (Scientist, American , born in 1946) keywords: arbitrary, characters, fiction, happens, into, out, put, rules, science, work, world , writers Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
by George Ryan (Politician, American , born in 1934) keywords: arbitrary, because, capricious, death, illinois, immoral, longer, machinery, penalty, shall, system, therefore , tinker 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.
by Francoise Sagan (Playwright, French , born in 1935) keywords: arbitrary, certain, characters, compare, feels, finding, jazz, less, life, much, oneself, progression, question, rhythm, rhythmic, rhythms, sort, tells, three, time , writing Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
by Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher, German , born in 1788) keywords: another, arbitrary, chance, inflicted, nature, never, painful, seems, suffering, us , will 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.
by Charles de Secondat (Philosopher, French , born in 1689) keywords: absurd, act, arbitrary, atheists, could, creation, creator, fatality, govern, invariable, laws, might, rules, say, seems, since, subsist, supposes, them, those, thus, which, without, world , would 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.
by William H. Seward (Statesman, American , born in 1801) keywords: acquired, arbitrary, domain, hold, indeed, nation, national, nevertheless, ours, over, power, true, valor, wealth , whole If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
by Algernon Sidney (Politician, English , born in 1623) keywords: advantage, arbitrary, cannot, corruption, established, liberty, power, prevail, subsist, vice , virtue 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.
by William Robertson Smith (Scientist, Scottish , born in 1846) keywords: actual, allegorical, arbitrary, attaches, categories, common, custom, demand, every, explained, explanation, facts, itself, myth, philosophy, principle, religious, requires, ritual, sense, sought, true , which 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.
by Ichiro Suzuki (Athlete, Japanese , born in 1973) keywords: arbitrary, definition, else, personally, relative, someone, success, term, thing, too, usually , yours One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
by Larry Wall (Author, Canadian , born in 1949) keywords: arbitrary, basic, different, ideas, kinds, post-modernism, power, rejection, sensitive, structures , very 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.
by James T. Walsh (Politician, American , born in 1947) keywords: accomplished, agreement, any, arbitrary, before, bring, congressional, could, home, increase, mission, our, potentially, risk, soldiers, table, time, troops , unacceptable 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.
by Mercy Otis Warren (Playwright, American , born in 1970) keywords: among, arbitrary, civilization, degrees, domination, love, lust, nations, perhaps, power, prevailed, proportion , uncontrolled Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
by George Washington (President, American , born in 1732) keywords: abused, arbitrary, easily, established, liberty, licentiousness, most, power , ruins 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.
by Edmund White (Novelist, American , born in 1940) keywords: already, arbitrary, biography, challenge, did, especially, game, might, nor, novels, rules, since, those, want , write
