Arbiter Quotes

• The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Unions, Ultimate

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Teamwork, Later In Life, Creating

  "Merrill's Marauders: The truth about an incredible adventure" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

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• When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

  Ayn Rand

  Learning, Winning, Reality

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.781, Hamilton Books

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• The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

  James Buchanan

  Patriotic, Men, Presidential

  James Buchanan (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.309, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

  Max Eastman

  Choices, Mind, Unions

  Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”

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• PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Courage, Military, Growth

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.172, 谷月社

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• To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Judging, Political

  Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

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• I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.

  Judy Biggert

  Believe, Finals, Should

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• Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Two, Phantoms

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.35, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Work, Men, Two

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• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Social, Court, Policy

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• The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

  Roman Coppola

  People, Appreciate, Creative

  "Roman Coppola Is Young At Heart". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2012.

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• The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

  Hannah Arendt

  Death, War, Simple

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On violence”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.

  James K. Polk

  Gratitude, Blessing, Should

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!

  Martin Zweig

  Fighting, Decision, Finals

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• Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

  John Dykstra

  Technology, Hands, Creative

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• Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.

  Virginia E. Johnson

  Experts, Vegetarian, Should

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• Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.

  Aaron David Miller

  Value Of Life, Ultimate, Values

  Aaron David Miller (2014). “The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President”, p.6, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Taste, Creation, Sole

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1380, Delphi Classics

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• I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

  Vera Wang

  Taste

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• My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

  Desmond Tutu

  Father, Lying, Voice

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land" (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man.

  Pope Pius X

  Eye, Men, Land

  "A Treasury of Saints : 100 Saints : Their Lives and Times". Book by Malcolm Day, 2002.

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• We are the arbiters of our destiny.

  Irina Tweedie

  Destiny, Our Destiny

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

  Salman Rushdie

  Order, Needs, Sacred

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.

  Elizabeth Holtzman

  Government, Space, Rights

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