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“Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.”

Source: They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration

“According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.”

Relation Scholar Arbitrary Linguistics

Book:Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

Source: Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

“I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?”

Thinking Arbitrary Physicality Wince

Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.”

Should Matter Used Clear Teacher No Matter What Sentences Grammar Arbitrary Punctuation

Author:Andy Rooney

“Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.”

States Seems Chance Destiny Alive Terrorism Radical Outcomes Emergencies Arbitrary Suspended Hostage Extermination Wait For Him

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.”

Way Use Order Color Arbitrary

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Emotional and psychological pain were to become, perhaps, the most powerful force in molding the course of my life. For some people, pain and hurt breed bitterness and cynicism. For others it causes them to look deeply into themselves and into life itself in an attempt to understand the meaning beneath seemingly capricious or arbitrary happenings.”

People Looks Pain Courses Force Causes Hurt Powerful Emotional Happenings Psychological Most Powerful Bitterness Cynicism Arbitrary Capricious Molding Psychological Pain

Book:Never Alone: A Personal Way to God

Source: Never Alone: A Personal Way to God

“The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that followed, the colours were chosen arbitrarily and drawn by chance. Then, 180 tones were mixed according to a given system and drawn by chance to make four variations of 180 tones. But after that the number 180 seemed too arbitrary to me, so I developed a system based on a number of rigorously defined tones and proportions.”

Firsts Art Stills Given Chance Numbers Four Painting Pops Chosen Defined Related Tone Colour Proportion Arbitrary Variation Sample Pop Art

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random. And then, of course, I realized that it never can be random. It was all a way of opening a door for me. If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.”

Ifs Knows Way Art Important Hard Play Choices Courses Chance Doors Painting Originals I Realized Opening Abstract Arbitrary Abstract Painting

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.”

Art Reason Painting Periods Lows Including Appropriate Selection Arbitrary Highs And Lows

Author:Gerhard Richter

“No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can't decide to want anything, but what you want will at least in part be a result of a series of other choices and judgments you've made in your life to date.”

Want Made Matter Today Choices Results Exercise Judgment Series What You Want Genuine Lunch Arbitrary

Author:Julian Baggini

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

Used Games Explanation Arbitrary

Author:Michael Behe

“I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager.”

Want Trying Computer Decided Managers Employee Arbitrary Proactive Capricious

Author:Larry Wall

“What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.”

Ifs Way Writing Mean Young Attention Audience Stage Killing Awake Bores Arbitrary Resorts Playwright Pointless

Book:Conversations with Tennessee Williams

Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams

“Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?”

War Government Constitution Terror Terrorist Replaced Arbitrary War On Terror

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

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