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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

  Change, Growth, Purpose

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• All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

  William Bligh

  Travel, Adventure, Wind

  William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.

  William Baldwin

  Character, Two, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

  Walter Scott

  Pain, Angel, Light

  Marmion canto 6, st. 30 (1808) See Shakespeare 228

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• Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting, screwed-up variables that results in a certain visual pleasure in violent things. Like a broken egg yolk can be the most violent thing I've seen all day, if I'm in the right mood. But also tons of trash in the woods or a burned-up trailer park can also come across as especially violent.

  Elizabeth Neel

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Eggs

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

  Garrett Hardin

  Knows, Interconnected

  Garrett James Hardin (1985). “Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent”, Penguin Group USA

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• Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

  Garrett Hardin

  Art, Reality, Numbers

  Garrett James Hardin (1985). “Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent”, Penguin Group USA

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• We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Modern, Structure

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• "Risk means more things can happen than will happen." It is not standard deviation. It is not variability. It is this sense that the future events are highly variable and unknowable that gives us the best sense for risk.

  Elroy Dimson

  Mean, Giving, Risk

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• Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

  William James

  Mean, Goal, Achieve

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• Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Opinion

  "Marquis of Vauvenargues, where out thou?", www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2001.

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• The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.

  Sally Mann

  Children, Light, Expression

  Sally Mann (2015). “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Helpful, Problem, Dilemma

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or to a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is impossible to accept. Elementary rationality and my decades-long experience with econometric modelling and statistical testing of scientific hypotheses tell me that it is impossible to make strong conclusions based on mere correlation of two (or more) time series.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Strong, Two, Long

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• All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colors. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables is what makes it an art.

  Vittorio Storaro

  Art, Decisions You Make, Light

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• In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

  Henry Wessel, Jr.

  Photography, Two, Stills

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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 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.

  James W. Prescott

  Society, Degrees, Becoming

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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 your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

  Meg Whitman

  Names, Government, Suffering

  "The Kudlow Report", www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Fashion, Uniforms, Election

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• HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Mean, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

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• But if fate won’t be denied...if it’s set, how could there be infinite possibilities? (Kat) Only certain aspects are fated. The outcome isn’t. It was fated that Sin would loose his godhood. The means and what followed were determined by free will. Free will is that one scary variable that sets so much into motion that no one, not even I, have control over. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Fate, Scary

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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 big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

  Jeff Bezos

  Two, Size, Cost

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Amazon's Jeff Bezos". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. March 26, 2001.

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• Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Giving Up, Real, Thinking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, James M. Edie (1964). “The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics”, p.159, Northwestern University Press

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• All variables are independent.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Independent

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• I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.

  Joan Didion

  Cutting, Rooms, Scripts

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.6, Zola Books

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