Variations Quotes
162 quotes by 145 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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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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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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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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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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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…
— Molly Haskell
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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…
— Marjory Stephenson
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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…
— Niccolo Paganini
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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…
— Eva Cox
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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…
— Edward Hoagland
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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,…
— James Dickey
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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…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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