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• So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Night, Ideas

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• One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Looks, Way, Helping

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• Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Knowing, Giving

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• Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

  Florence Nightingale

  Healing, Recovery, Mean

  "Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not".

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• Fill the moment and find variety.

  Paul Newman

  Crafts, Moments

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• I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Thinking, Differences, Diversity

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• No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

  Mark Twain

  Appreciation, Men, Editors

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.219, Courier Corporation

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• Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Liberty, Revolution, Made

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• New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

  Moliere

  Love, Desire, Seduction

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• All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

  Francis Bacon

  Heart, Light, Hue

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• Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Men, Curiosity

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Imagine, Contradiction

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• Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Unique, Greatness, Class

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.147

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• We all have the people we follow on Tumblr whose opinions or taste we respect. And I think because you see so much more variety of opinions and everything on the internet, it's less decided that something is good or bad. It's more like we all just sort of like what we like.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Thinking, People, Taste

  Interview with Claire Boucher, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different stories spun different ways and different sources that they're going to cite as their facts.

  Jon Foreman

  Different, News, Stories

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

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• The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.

  David Limbaugh

  Issues, Perspective, Political

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• I think everybody should see ('The Star Wars Holiday Special') to realize how bad something can be. There are some cool things in there, but it's two hours long, and you could probably cut it down to about two minutes and twelve seconds of cool material. The animated Boba Fett sequence is great, and there's some cool stuff, but overall, the whole format of a variety show in the 'Star Wars' universe is just a train wreck.

  Kyle Newman

  War, Holiday, Cutting

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• Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.

  Trevor Nunn

  Needs, Language, Economic

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• This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment when we have the ability to step out of the story altogether. Renaissances are historical instances of widespread recontextualisation. People in a variety of different arts, philosophies and sciences have the ability to reframe their reality. Renaissance literally means 'rebirth'. It is the rebirth of old ideas in a new context.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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• If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

  Bill Gates

  Creating, Design, Competition

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• I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its mulitplicity and endless variety, come in.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

  Christopher Wren

  Uniformity

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• Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story forward, and Johnny finds the most remarkable variety within that narrow set of emotions. The intensity is at a boil all the time and he never drops it. It's real anger.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Hurt, Revenge, Real

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• I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

  Cornel West

  Philosophy, Thinking, Different

  Source: genius.com

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• When you start and you're taking the character seriously, it's going to lead down a variety of paths.

  Jon Hurwitz

  Character, Path

  Source: collider.com

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