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• Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.

  David Bentley

  Religious, Powerful, Ignorance

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• Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final addresses of key commands, variables, and constants.

  Saul Gorn

  Keys, Finals, Use

  "Planning Universal Semi-Automatic Coding". Book by Saul Gorn, 1954.

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• Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation."
  "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Years, Significant Change

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• With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

  Richard Ayoade

  Sound, Littles, Rooms

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Errors, Profound, Pieces

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems”, p.352, Bottletree Books LLC

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• As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Way, Form

  Karl Marx (1978). “Capital: a critique of political economy”

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• Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Color, Pigment, Form

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• Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited.

  Frederick Lenz

  Space, Steps, Kind

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• The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved that explanation and prediction could be based on laws which accounted for the observed phenomena as functions of comparatively few variables - either particular facts or relative frequencies of events.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, Events, Fields

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Prize Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1974.

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• In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.

  Robert Gilpin

  Running, Believe, Historical

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.336, Princeton University Press

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• the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

  Ruth Rendell

  Weather, England, Climate

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• the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

  Hannah More

  Silence, Speech, Conversation

  Hannah More (1853). “Poems, sacred dramas, essays”, p.278

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