Variable Quotes
87 quotes by 78 authors
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that…
— Gregory Bateson
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
— Joseph Addison
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be…
— Jeff Bezos
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The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into…
— Paul Houston
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The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for…
— Julia Cameron
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To be is to be the value of a variable.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter…
— Margaret Halsey
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In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed…
— Edward Teller
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On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
— William Bligh
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The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
— William H. Seward
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I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by…
— Henri Desgrange
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Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically…
— Edmund Pellegrino
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Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of solarmagnetic activity. ...…
— Nigel Weiss
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We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here…
— Carlo Rovelli
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Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When…
— Walter Scott
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Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government…
— Meg Whitman
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The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2…
— James W. Prescott
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Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in…
— Patrick Lencioni
Who Wrote These Variable Quotes
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