Most variables can show either an upward or downward…

“These are early days, Trot, and Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year. You have chosen freely for yourself and…

— Charles Dickens

Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished…

— Robert S. Strauss

“Behind every downward trend in society lies the church’s permission in one form or another.”

— Klaus Bockmuehl

You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between…

— Thomas Sowell

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without…

— Thomas Sowell

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that…

— Thomas Sowell

“With great goals, comes the high costs; both fixed and variable. Time is the fixed cost; efforts, variable. Spend passionately.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of…

— Andrew Weil

We’re never gonna understand women. They’re way too complex. You’ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings .…

— Susane Colasanti

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in…

— Meg Whitman

There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And…

— Guy Steele

“You should imagine variables as tentacles, rather than boxes. They do not contain values; they grasp them—two variables can refer to the same value.”

— Marijn Haverbeke

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way…

— Karl Marx