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“We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.”

Men May Matter Might Answers Money Talent Crime Conversation Conscience No Matter What Committed Newspapers Decay Variation Objections Tiresome

Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

“In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.”

Two Different Interesting Party Policy Republican Democrat Population Variation Factions World Population

Author:Noam Chomsky

“All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.”

Mind Kind Different Feelings Greatness Particular Mark Testimony Variation Different Minds

Book:Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

“Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.”

Giving Has Beens Ends Character Turns Fiction Personality Eternal Surprise Theme Unexpected Variation Predictable Incorrigible

Book:The humanist in the bathtub

Source: The humanist in the bathtub

“If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.”

“Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.”

Happenings Fairs Stress Theme Unjust Variation Stressful

Author:Byron Katie

“The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But not until recently has it been recognized that in living organisms, as in the realm of crystals, chemical differences parallel the variation in structure.”

Source: The Specificity of Serological Reactions

“Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material.”

Science Natural Differences Materials Type Capable Genes Selection Variation Genetics Natural Selection Multiplication

Author:Hermann Joseph Muller

“We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors.”

Science Effects Experiments Factors Related Variation

Author:Ronald Fisher

“That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.”

World Wells Has Beens Pain Religion Suffering Evil Force Natural Results Views Powerful Atheism Products Agree Selection Disputes Variation Natural Selection Good God Uncaring

Author:Charles Darwin

“I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to show why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower from, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction. The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance.”

Source: The Descent of Man and Seletion in Relation to Sex

“Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation in the composition of air, the precise suitability of food, makes all the difference between health and sickness; between life and death.”

Men Nature Differences Environment Air Circumstances Creatures Degrees Sickness Life And Death Composition Precise Temperature Variation Adapted Between Life And Death

Book:The Story of the Heavens

Source: The Story of the Heavens

“In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.”

People Believe Religious Principles Golden Variation Golden Rule Humanistic Non Religious

Author:Hillary Clinton

“But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.”

Love Giving Art Poetry Order Lows Art Is Harmony Chaos Landscape Flats Attributes Inspirational Love Introducing Variation Highs And Lows Haskell

Book:From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition

Source: From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition

“Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than in more differentiated forms of life, and they can in addition afford to occupy more precarious positions in natural economy than larger organisms with more exacting requirements.”

May Form Science Growth Natural Economy Position Size Experiments Arise Organisms Requirements Rapids Variation Owing Precarious Bacteria Rapid Growth

Author:Marjory Stephenson

“Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity and variation we are thus discovering the molecular basis of growth and reproduction. The theory of the cell revealed the unity of living processes; the study of the cell is beginning to reveal their physical foundations.”

Process Growth Study Theory Bases Foundation Structure Unity Seeking Cells Mechanism Discovering Mechanic Variation Genetics Reproduction Heredity

Author:C. D. Darlington

“The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can seldom or never make experiments for himself, he has to accept the data of daily experience, and discuss as best he can the relations of a whole group of changes; he cannot, like the physicist, narrow down the issue to the effect of one variation at a time. The problems of statistics are in this sense far more complex than the problems of physics.”

“The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parent cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other.”

“On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions.”

Writing I Can Would Be Friendship Known Pieces Four Fame Letters Mark Germany Midst Concerts Composition Variation Mama December Venice Carnivals Paganini

Author:Niccolo Paganini

“The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum so unreservedly. . . . And 2nd, it is not clear to me why, if continual physical conditions are of so little moment as you suppose, variation should occur at all. However, I must read the book two or three times more before I presume to begin picking holes.”

Ifs Should Littles Two Book Moments Science Three Clear Conditions Criticism Difficulty Holes Unnecessary Three Times Variation Loaded Objections Adopting Little Moments

Author:Thomas Huxley

“There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.”

Want Children Doe Age Science Life Is Growth Education Periods Garden Forests Diets Pot Appetite Spontaneous Variation Pupils Vigorous Rococo Wild Free

Author:G. Stanley Hall

“Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household and family arrangements. If women with children and family responsibilities are almost always seriously limited by these, then those currently in power will not have the personal experience necessary to represent these overlooked areas.”

Ifs Men Needs Children Leadership Responsibility Company Offers Areas Wide Household Arrangements Spectrum Variation Personal Experiences Overlooked Family Responsibility

Book:Leading Women

Source: Leading Women

“Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.”

People Ifs Thinking Life Kind Long Country Funny Life Is Principles Behave Appreciated Life Is Short Variation

Book:Tugman's Passage

Source: Tugman's Passage

“It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired.”

Writing Trying Sometimes Process Lines Couple Lows Hundred Tough Gold Inspired Endless Crafts Awful Grades Dirt Variation Refining Single Line

Author:James Dickey

“Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.”

Book Values Forget Mistake Percent Chess Opening Assumption Ninety Variation Great Value

Author:Jose Raul Capablanca

“I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.”

Different Sports Waiting Interesting Program Coaches Variation January Spirals

Author:Sasha Cohen

“...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes to life through light or by its surroundings... To capture some of this - I suppose that's lyricism.”

Light Eye Alive Crazy Objects Photography Photographer Capture Surroundings Variation

Author:Josef Sudek

“The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part occasionally varying in a slight degree but in many ways, with the preservation or natural selection of those variations which are beneficial to the organism under the complex and ever-varying conditions of life, transcend in an incomparable degree the contrivances and adaptations which the most fertile imagination of man could suggest with unlimited time at his disposal.”

Men Way Beautiful Force Nature Imagination Study Conditions Degrees Complexes Impressed Organisms Preservation Adaptation Beneficial Variation Fertile Incomparable

Author:Charles Darwin

“The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.”

Men May Past Given Impossible He Man Acquire Motor Variation Heredity Possible And Impossible Achieving The Impossible

Book:Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)

Source: Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)

“It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.”

Economics Destroyed Variation

Author:Charles Darwin

“The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The variation we are seeing in temperature or rainfall is double the rate of the average. That suggests that we are going to have more droughts, we are going to have more floods, we are going to have more sea surges and we are going to have more storms. These are the sort of changes that are going to affect us in quite a short timescale”

Government Seeing Sea Happenings Evidence Harder Climate Rate Climate Change Average Storm Combat Flood Temperature Variation Drought Tackling Rainfall Unequivocal

Author:John Beddington

“Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.”

People Home Difficult Simple Decision Style Consumers Flavor Variation Mortgage Home Mortgage

Author:Scott D. Cook

“No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within which human virtue can bear the temptations of power. Happily for mankind, liberty is not, in this respect, confined to any single point of time, but lies within extremes, which afford sufficient latitude for all the variations which may be required by the various situations and circumstances of civil society.”

Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus

“There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.”

Knows Musician Patterns Karma Endless Theme Variation Tapestry Sonatas

Book:Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel

Source: Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel

“I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his brain, and particularly of his ample cerebral hemispheres, to which the rest of the animal kingdom offers no parallel, nor even any near approximation, is sufficient to account for.”

“Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.”

Simple Music Musician Understood Photographer Theme Variation Richness

Author:John Szarkowski

“Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the variation on a theme (saying the same thing over and over and over again) song, and the weird song. It's important to have weird songs, but I find that a little weirdness goes a long way.”

Way Writing Littles Long Important Stories Song Three Type Theme Songwriting Divides Long Way Variation Weirdness Ballads Saying The Same Thing Over And Over

Author:David Massengill

“The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.”

Seems Age Manifestation Phenomenon Minors Variation Ufo Trojan Horse

Book:UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse

Source: UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse

“The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our ability to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicates that they are liars and put-on artists, the UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.”

Source: UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse

“I've fallen for one girl too many who's wanted some variation of who I am and only that. It eats you alive.”

Wanted Girl Alive Who I Am Fallen Variation

Author:Christopher Krovatin

“I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.”

Feels Should Character Science Next Stars Fiction Roles Science Fiction Scripts Variation Spandex

Author:Marina Sirtis

“A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front punch and a reverse punch are all essentially the same. Looking over thirty-odd kata, he should be able to see that they are essentially variations on just a handful.”

Should Wells Able Levels Fronts Students Technique Odd Thirty Reverse Handful Variation Corresponding

Book:Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text

Source: Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text

“All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop books. And the other thing they said was, 'You have to confront the oppressor.' I understand that. But you don't have to look at the world through his eyes. I'm not a stereotype; I'm not somebody else's version of who I am. And so when people said at that time black is beautiful – yeah? Of course. Who said it wasn't? So I was trying to say, in The Bluest Eye, wait a minute. Guys. There was a time when black wasn't beautiful. And you hurt.”

“All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.”

Animal Particular Theme Minors Variation

Book:The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Source: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

“You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear. We may have authentic gentiles in our midst: these single protests are of no account; they are extreme and irrelevant variations.”

Way May Accounts Jew Extremes Protest Midst Irrelevant Variation Gentiles

Author:Maurice Samuel

“Day and night will not cease. Yet, you need not continue viewing them as opposites. There is no longer a need to think that night has the same power as day. There is just the power of light, with variations of intensity and interruption. Once the full scope of understanding is attained, duality fades away. Higher intelligence is manifested through integrated perceptions of wholeness which restore your recognition of the one spirit. The sons of God are those who do not explain life or manage it with dualistic concepts. The sons of God are those who seek to perceive wholeness in all things.”

Source: Love Without End: Jesus Speaks--

“Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation. People are being misled by people making money out of this.”

“Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with ourselves in the face of life or death, prominence or obscurity, or an infinite amount of changes and variations, and will be in accord with principle.”

Ifs Should Faces Growth Change Realizing Principles Destiny Amount Anxiety Infinite Ease Variation Accord Obscurity Life Or Death Starting Anew Prominence

Author:Guo Xiang

“The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.”

Long Three Five Food Picks Seven Including Take Me Variation Handy Versatile

Book:The Book of Awesome

Source: The Book of Awesome

“From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly alike, and the greatest source of error in the assertions of Benedict and Lombroso has been the finding of this or that variation in a criminal's brains, and maintaining such to be characteristic of the 'criminal constitution,' unmindful of the fact that like variations of structure may and do exist in the brains of normal, moral persons.”

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