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• High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

  Martin Filler

  Survival, Taste, Building

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• O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Circles, Fickle

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 107

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• Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.

  Richard A. Falk

  Alternatives, Shifting, Great Depression

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.

  Douglas Adams

  Stress, Two, Velocity

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

  Bill Parcells

  Looks, Problem

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with… Bill Parcells". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. August 05, 2012.

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• Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Disorder

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, School, Years

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topography, Alternatives, World

  "Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is" by Jerry Saltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2011.

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• We’re never gonna understand women. They’re way too complex. You’ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings . . . there’s no way to tell what’s causing their attitude. - Mike

  Susane Colasanti

  Attitude, Hair, Swings

  Susane Colasanti (2008). “When It Happens”, p.176, Penguin

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• You make one tiny variable and so help me, I’ll have you slaughtered where you sit. (Kiefer) He’s just such a nice man. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Men, Tiny

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• Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

  Naveen Jain

  Trust, Real, Heart

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• The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.

  Paul Houston

  Kids, Justice, Diversity

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• I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals

  Lance Armstrong

  Athlete, Race, Goal

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• If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Moving

  "Viruses of the Mind". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1993.

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• Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

  Adrienne Rich

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

  Wendy Mass

  Beautiful, Taken, Cells

  Wendy Mass (2010). “Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions.

  Andrew Weil

  Believe, Emotional, Healthy

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• These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Husband, Lying, Heart

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• I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Talking, Fields

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with… Bill Parcells". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. July 28, 2013.

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• Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for it, so that it can be regarded as one of the wandering stars. For the fact that it is not the centre of all revolutions is made clear by the apparent irregular motion of the wandering stars, and their variable distances from the Earth, which cannot be understood in a circle having the same centre as the Earth.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Stars, Distance, Science

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1976). “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”, David & Charles Publishers

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• Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

  Aberjhani

  Nature, Fear, Humanity

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• The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from
  another than from himself at different times.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Diversity, Principles

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.409, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really hard, another to work on moderately hard, and the third one just to absorb. In my case, I never showed up to the latter class, taught by Robert Gunning, on Several Complex Variables. Several Complex Variables (Cn) was starting to get vary fashionable then, but I decided to specialize in n=1/2.

  Richard Askey

  School, Science, Class

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• Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

  Tucker Max

  Two, Theatrical, Distributors

  Interview with Rick Mele, www.askmen.com. November 23, 2009.

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• The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

  Jose Bergamin

  God, Ironic, Religion

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