Variation Quotes
250 quotes by 212 authors
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
— Daniel Barenboim
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance…
— Lord Chesterfield
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but…
— Noam Chomsky
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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…
— Hillary Clinton
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
— Tori Amos
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Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the…
— Gerald Weinberg
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On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera…
— Karl Landsteiner
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median -…
— Tom Peters
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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…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
— Margaret Fuller
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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…
— Mary McCarthy
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Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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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…
— Alfred Kinsey
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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…
— Byron Katie
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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…
— Karl Landsteiner
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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…
— Hermann Joseph Muller
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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…
— Ronald Fisher
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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…
— Charles Darwin
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