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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 correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, May, Impossible

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.124, Hackett Publishing

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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 in a matter of years, and standardizing the varieties of human experience.

  Michael Parenti

  Years, Practice, Culture

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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 they are governed by a common passion, their opinions if they are so to be called, will be the same.

  James Madison

  Fall, Passion, Exercise

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.237

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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 to reappear, though it would be quite impossible to give definitions by which each group could be distinguished from other groups, as all would blend together by steps as fine as those between the finest existing varieties, nevertheless a natural classification, or at least a natural arrangement, would be possible.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Science, Giving

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species”, p.322, Zillmann Publishing

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• Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

  Richard Owen

  Science, Animal, Differences

  Richard Owen (1848). “On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton”, p.7

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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 a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight.

  Johannes Kepler

  Believe, Science, Animal

  "New Science Theory". Book by Vincent Wilmot, p.68,

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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 are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Diversity

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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 in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. Littré, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Names, Nomenclature

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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

  Crazy, Miracle, Madness

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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 specific in mind when I'm working. My intentions are neither feminist nor political. I try to put double or multiple meanings into my photos, which might give rise to a greater variety of interpretations.

  Cindy Sherman

  People, Giving, Feminist

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• Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Unique, Different, Reason

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.

  Jimmy Smits

  Running, Hands, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I play a huge variety of roles

  Casper Van Dien

  Play, Roles, Huge

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• Did you know that the word person comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask? So maybe being human means we invite spectators to ponder what lies behind. Each of us will be composed of a variety of masks, and if we can see behind the mask, we would get a burst of clarity. And if that flame was bright enough, that's when we fall in love.

  John Cusack

  Falling In Love, Lying, Latin

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• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  Wayne Brady

  Morning, People, Dancing

  "CNN Live Today" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. October 1, 2003.

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• The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Character, Play, Intention

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

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• I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors

  John Turturro

  Thinking, Actors, Done

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• I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

  Kenny Baker

  School, Years, Taxi

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I try to anticipate the ball well. That's something that's helped me since when I was a kid. Just learning to anticipate and read the game well. That's helped me. When I moved over to Spain and I was 15 I was playing with big guys who were 22 years to 28 years old and I was 15 so I couldn't beat them with power. I had to beat them with touch shots and variety and anticipation and all of those things. I learned a lot when I was over there.

  Andy Murray

  Kids, Years, Games

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• We wanted to make a show that not only highlights the adventure of hunting, but also the fantastic culinary opportunities that a successful hunt can bring. It's great to have those efforts validated with a Beard nomination, and it speaks to the dedication of everyone on the MeatEater team. This honor makes us even more motivated to keep hammering out a solid, authentic hunting show that speaks to a variety of audiences.

  Steven Rinella

  Team, Adventure, Successful

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• A harem lacks variety compared to a woman with whom you are deeply in love.

  Camillo Berneri

  Deeply In Love, Harem

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• The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description and heartfelt expression to classical allusion and evocative wordplay. Succeeding generations rediscover and renew the form so that it retains its vitality.

  Harryette Mullen

  Simple, Expression, Heartfelt

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• For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Years, Effort

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• A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

  John Selden

  Two, Religion, Church

  John Selden (1821). “Selden's table talk”, p.37

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• When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Unity, Deep Thought

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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