Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths..

No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and ….

National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the indivi….

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is..

But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are….

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions..

For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true and only sen….

No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels..

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the dut….

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost..

We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce numerical results which….

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusti….

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others..

All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties….

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us..

Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is….

I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, a….

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective..

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands..

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education..

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character..