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“Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.”

Ifs Individual Causes Struggle Degrees Species Complexes Preservation Profitable Variation Natural Selection Offspring Proceeding Owing Origin Of Species Complex Relationships

Author:Charles Darwin

“It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.”

World May Said Opportunity Natural Conditions Offers Relation Improvement Selection Variation Natural Selection Rejecting

Book:The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 15: On the Origin of Species, 1859

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 15: On the Origin of Species, 1859

“Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.”

World Want Needs Wise Deeper Surprising Variation Tuning

Book:Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

“Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.”

Written Mines Composer Variation Brahms

Author:Franz Liszt

“It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.”

People World Feels Littles Different Shows Understanding Type Tragedy Caught Various Gender Significance Indifferent Homosexual Variation

Author:Emma Goldman

“There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.”

Knows Obvious Norm Variation Subtlety

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.”

Knows Want Clear Style Concern Program Definitions Objectives Tendencies Pursue Uncertainty Theme Mastery Passive Variation Boundless Steers Inconsistent

Book:Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

Source: Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

“Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to our lecture.”

Ifs Should States Moving Science Order Interest Loses Chance Audience Fields Driven Repeats Theme Cows Lectures Variation Herds Interrupted Right Direction Good Chance Moving Slowly

Book:Indiscrete Thoughts

Source: Indiscrete Thoughts

“Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed at random through wild populations, and to follow the laws of chance in their distribution to offspring. In other words, they are an agency producing variation of the kind which Darwin postulated as the raw material on which selection acts.”

Kind Shows Reality Law Natural Chance Known Materials Population Agency Genes Selection Distribution Variation Natural Selection Offspring Raw Materials

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.”

Has Beens Found Causes Cases Regard Labour Commodity Wages Variation Confined

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles, or even emphasizing different aspects of the same truth. This fails to recognize that the different 'variations' are often altogether different gospels. The Reformed gospel is completely different from the Roman Catholic gospel; a faith-based gospel is in direct contradiction to a works-based gospel; a truly evangelical gospel stands in contrast to an ultracharismatic gospel.”

Different Opinion Failing Aspect Direct Catholic Contradiction Contrast Angle Variation Evangelical Roman Catholic Faith Based Different Angles

Author:Paul Washer

“I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.”

Thinking Dangerous Things To Do Theme Variation Dangerous Things

Author:Tori Amos

“In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory...”

Littles Energy Theory Substitutes Quantum Variation Transfers Quantum Theory Mutation

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.”

Thinking Stills Winning Challenges Competition Very Good Speed Variation

Author:Martina Hingis

“Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.”

Earth Form Study Benefits Species Peril Variation Totality Degrade Biodiversity

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.”

Made Certain Speak Process Generations Objects Evolution Fixed Transformed Selection Variation New Start

Author:Ernst Mayr

“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.”

Ifs Inspirational Term Natural Principles Hair Evolution Selection Variation Natural Selection Survival Of The Fittest Theory Of Evolution Origin Of Species Struggle For Existence

Author:Charles Darwin

“Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing here and there so that not everything is perfectly in unison. It adds a texture you can acquire only from having different voices. The variations lead to interesting quirks. It's an integral part of the Enya sound.”

Writing Firsts Different Sound Voice Interesting Secret Add Acquire Pushing Melody Variation Here And There Texture Dynamics Quirks Unison Different Voices

Author:Nicky Ryan

“There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.”

Hurt Endless Variation

Author:Gloria Allred

“The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous manners, a generous regard for the rights of others, and, above all, integrity which admits of no qualification or variation.”

Purpose Rights Industry Habit Integrity Essentials Elements Regard Manners Generous Success In Life Variation Qualifications Courteous

Author:William A. Clark

“Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated.”

May Found Causes Variation

Author:Walter A. Shewhart

“Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed passions.' He spoke of the 'lack of total agreement even within the warring camps,' and added, 'things really are in an uproar these days . . . Sometimes it seems as though there are as many variations on each [evolutionary] theme as there are individual biologists.'”

Years Said Sometimes Seems Lasts Passion Individual Doubt Twenties These Days Theme Agreement Spokes Biology Camps Variation Prominent Biologist Certitude Evolutionary Biology

Author:Niles Eldredge

“The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water”

Looks Stills Past Water Cities Wall Travel Ocean Standing Blue Ancient Buried Shallow Royal Variation Deep Within Ocean Water Winding Road Royal Blue

Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.”

Female Males Range Exceed Variation

Author:Alfred Kinsey

“When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.”

Writing Firsts Play Moving Gone Tree Finished Analysis Branches Score Sheets Variation Analyzing

Author:Alexander Kotov

“With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.”

“The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after.”

“Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.”

Doe Turns Nature Pride Patterns Variation

Author:Seneca the Younger

“In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.”

Tree Complicated Chess Analysis Branches Variation Analysing

Author:Alexander Kotov

“It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions.”

Ifs Trying Book Play Interesting Deals Chess Conclusion Analysis Variation

Book:Secrets of Chess Training

Source: Secrets of Chess Training

“After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.”

Literature Views Deals Sacrifice Approach Decided Definitions Point Of View Chess Combination Settling Discussion Soviet Variation Methodical

Author:Alexander Kotov

“You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.”

Lines Walks Bullying Bully Variation Bullied

Book:What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are

Source: What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are

“Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half”

Knows Turns Games Half Strategy Chess Variation Tournaments Superfluous Chess Game

Author:Jan Timman

“Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation”

Confidence Frequency Variation Statistician

Author:Lillian Hellman

“Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?”

Audience Wise Humour Masters Following Chess Smoke Forbidden Variation Prohibition Exchanging

Author:Savielly Tartakower

“A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!”

Ifs Memories Alive Emotional Depth Chess What If Sensations Variation

Author:Lev Polugaevsky

“Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.”

Years Made Moving Ability Wonderful Chess Possessed Variation Invincible Phenomenal Algorithms Calculating Capablanca

Author:Mikhail Botvinnik

“Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.”

Book Theory Chess Variation Tournaments Memorization

Author:Mikhail Botvinnik

“When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.”

Time My Own Chess Dialogue Clock Opponents Consideration Internals Variation

Author:Mikhail Botvinnik

“In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.”

Five Example Absolutes Twenties Structure Library Symbols Nonsense Variation Twenty Five

Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work out which particular moves he should consider and then examine just as many variations as necessary - no more and no less.”

Should Enough Moving Learning Particular Masters Work Out Chess Variation Accountants

Author:Alexander Kotov

“In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.”

Play Lost Modern Position Losing Complicated Chess Variation Praxis

Book:Saving lost positions

Source: Saving lost positions

“The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).”

Way Writing Enough Home Running Approach Standards Golf Obvious Seeking Clubs Consistent Copies Hitting Variation Home Run Golf Clubs Hitting Home Runs Takeaways

Author:Seth Godin

“I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?”

Thinking Should Problem Quality Treatment Healthcare Variation Eyeballs

Author:Thulasiraj Ravilla

“Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or female - making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. ... Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any system - not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it.”

Mean Different Lasts Moving Sex Generations Produce Female Threat Males Defeat Compromise Evolve Target Genes Living Things Variation Presenting Offspring Reproduction Mixing Parasites Intruders

Book:Daemon

Source: Daemon

“What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do”

Humans Heart Two Body Eye Can Do Possibility Arms Legs Hopefully Extensions Human Body Variation

Author:John Guare

“Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.”

Light Form Life Is Numbers Particular Wave Rhythm Limitless Variation Utterance Reverberation

Book:The memoirs of Zeus

Source: The memoirs of Zeus

“People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.”

People Sex Criticism Infinite Masculinity Femininity Ridicule Variation

Book:Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue

Source: Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue

“All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.”

Country Age Desire Struggle Eternal Dresses Variation

Author:Lin Yutang

“Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that we may use for our own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children.”

Way May Children Important Ends Use Earth Imagination Wonder Taste Taxes Resources Our Children Glorious Soil Ancestor Variation

Author:Charles Kellogg

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