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• It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.

  Blair Underwood

  Character, Play, Directors

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• Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Lying, Science

  "Moralités". Book by Paul Valery, 1932.

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• If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

  Sam Kean

  Running, Scientist, Mathematician

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• It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

  Hugh Laurie

  Lying, House, Human Condition

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• Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

  Laurel Clark

  Process, Gravity, Remove

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• But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social organization means utilization of the specific and variable qualities of individuals, not stratification by classes.

  John Dewey

  Plato, Mean, Taught Us

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Four, Noise, Three

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• My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

  Janet Yellen

  Rising Prices, Goal, House

  "In 2004 Janet Yellen Feared Housing Bust But Did Not Raise Public Alarm" by Marilyn W. Thompson, Ann Saphir, and Alister Bull, www.businessinsider.com. October 30, 2013.

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• There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And one would hope that there will be something about the program, whether it's block comments at the start of each routine or an overview document that comes separately or just choices of variable names that will somehow convey those stories to you.

  Guy Steele

  Block, Names, Choices

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• Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Sports, Play, Quality

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• You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Science, Doe

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• Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Years, Trends

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Light, Steps

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 1'

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• Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Independent, Thinking, Three

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.245, CUP Archive

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• Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.

  Warren Buffett

  Keys, Degrees, Alternatives

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.

  Georg Cantor

  Doubt, Facts, Infinite

  "'Over the different views with regard to the actual infinite numbers' ('Ueber die verschiedenen Ansichten in Bezug auf die actualunendlichen Zahlen')". Book by Georg Cantor, 1886.

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• You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

  Stephen King

  Life, Thinking, Numbers

  "Rage". Book by Stephen King, 1977.

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• Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

  Gregory Bateson

  Sex, Fall, Simplicity

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• The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

  Leslie White

  Independent, Technology, Determined

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• "The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

  Alexander Dewdney

  Education, Powerful, Math

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• How many fluids should you take in daily?  That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time.  If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.

  Matt Stone

  Running, Needs, Answers

  Matt Stone (2014). “Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood and Your Relationship with Food”, p.53, Matt Stone

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• Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

  Thomas Sowell

  Social Values, Safety, Diversity

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.110, Basic Books

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• It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for.

  David Shore

  Lying, What Matters, Focus

  "House: Three Stories". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.

  Tim Ferriss

  Two, Dollars, Income

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• Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Emotional, Choices, Decision

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