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• I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.

  Irving Penn

  Work Out, Introducing, Studios

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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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• It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

  Emile Durkheim

  Feelings, Needs, Limits

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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 always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

  Steve Vai

  Player, Emotional, Guitar

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

  Tim Ferriss

  Two, Dollars, Income

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

  Alexander Dewdney

  Education, Powerful, Math

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• Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some other cultures, who you know and how you're related to other individuals is the most important variable. And for others, it may be as much about your reputation and what others have said about you.

  David Livermore

  Other Cultures, Important, May

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.

  Faith Hunter

  Joy, Stones, Life Is

  Faith Hunter (2013). “Jane Yellowrock World Companion: (InterMix)”, p.12, Penguin

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• The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

  Jaime Lerner

  Believe, Taken, Cities

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• There is no such thing as a free variable.

  Alan Perlis

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• 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  Music, Moving, Doubt

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.

  Cyril Connolly

  Writing, Novelists, Stories

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• Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walk away... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents the least you will accept. Without one, you have no negotiating road map.

  Max Keiser

  Numbers, Knowing, Needs

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• My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Memorial, Use, Research

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• The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

  Albert Ellis

  Attitude, Recovery, Acceptance

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• There was only one variable that separated the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging and the people who really struggle for it. And that was, the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging believe they're worthy of love and belonging. That's it. They believe they're worthy.

  Brené Brown

  Strong, Believe, Struggle

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

  Bill Drayton

  Giving, Becoming, Break

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