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A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. Bruce Tulgan
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The permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to protest strongly at the arbitrary decision and to state that it disagrees completely with the pretexts given. Kofi Annan
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The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary. David Hume
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I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. Leonard Susskind
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Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. Michael Winter
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There are those that are saying you have to be able to dial back to any arbitrary point in time. From our discussions with the mid-market, that's not exactly something they are looking for.
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Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest. Levi Woodbury
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We're not going to be tied to an arbitrary date on the calendar. We haven't scheduled it yet. If it's needed we want to make sure it has maximum impact.
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The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together. Vint Cerf
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Its always a shock to me when I get recognized. Bryan Callen
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I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock. Bob Brown
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What's so surprising about bacon? I dunno, I suppose it comes as something a a shock to the pig. Terry Pratchett
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I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is. Brigitte Bardot
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I'm shocked at being recognized. Dan Stevens
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We were disappointed. At the same time, you can't say you're shocked or surprised that something like this would happen. Pat Gillick
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When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.
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She's amazing. I was shocked I was able to do that because she's so great.
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This would be shocking even in a Third World country. John Roberts
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We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong. Terry Jones
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To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.
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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. Thomas Hardy
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One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling Felix Frankfurter
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If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier.
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I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war. Alan Furst
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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. Malala Yousafzai
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The maliciousness, the intentional, deliberate cruelty that we see is incredibly frightening.