Variety Quotes
932 Variety quotes by 771 unique authors
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Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests…
— Ralph Raico
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of…
— Bernard Berenson
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When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio…
— Ludwig von Mises
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A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have…
— Christopher Wren
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In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage…
— Joseph Addison
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All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between minds than between…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as…
— Alexander Pope
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These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be particularized without involving…
— Alexander Hamilton
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But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it was before unknown,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be…
— James Madison
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Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole…
— James Madison
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Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through…
— Thomas Jefferson
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices…
— Michael Parenti
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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When…
— James Madison
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Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly…
— Charles Darwin
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Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
— Richard Owen
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My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes…
— Johannes Kepler
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Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also…
— Aristotle
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These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile…
— Louis Pasteur
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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
— Laurie Anderson
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I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because I have nothing…
— Cindy Sherman
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