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I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

Tim Meadows

School, Different, Afros

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Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Design, Innovation, World

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You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.

David Foster Wallace

Business, Real, Cowboy

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The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

Colin Farrell

Country, Sea, Survivor

"Interview: Colin Farrell and Neil Jordan on Ondine". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.

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Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

Ellsworth Huntington

Mammals, Climate, Asian

Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.6, VM eBooks

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Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.

Tim Berners-Lee

Unhappy, Trying, Example

"Frequently asked questions". Internet World Interview with Kris Herbst, www.w3.org. June 1994.

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There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely.

Woody Allen

Real, People, Age

"Woody Allen Interview – VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA". Interview with Steve 'Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2008.

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One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.

Isaac Newton

Differences, Different, Watches

David Brewster, Isaac Newton (1855). “Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton”, p.260

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Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.

John Dieterich

Elements, Realizing, My Favorite

"Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.

Elsie Clews Parsons

Educational, Cutting, Excellence

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Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar.

Antonio Damasio

Essence, Joy, Patterns

Source: bigthink.com

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It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how long would IBM be interested in research, but the gamble was taken and very shortly afterwards, I had this extraordinary fortune of stopping at Harvard to do a lecture and learning about the price variation in just the right way.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Jobs, Taken, Long

Source: bigthink.com

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My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.

Carl Andre

People, Limits, Pieces

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The greater the number of selections, the less will be the average year-to-year variation in actual versus expected results. Also, the lower will be the expected results, assuming different choices have different expectations of performance.

Warren Buffett

Average, Years, Numbers

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Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

James MacDonald

Knowing, Mind, Might

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There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.

Jamaica Kincaid

Hate, Night, Opposites

"Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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It's better to emphasize biblical theology, partly because there are fine Study Bibles already available that lean into systematic theology, and partly because biblical theology is particularly strong at helping readers see how the Bible hangs together in its own categories: that is, God in his infinite wisdom chose to give us his Word in the 66 canonical books, with all of their variations in theme, emphasis, vocabulary, literary form, and distinctive contributions across time.

D. A. Carson

Strong, Book, Biblical

Source: www.biblegateway.com

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Theres a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and womens literacy and empowerment, including womens gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are womens literacy and gainful economic employment.

Amartya Sen

Strong, Empowerment, India

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And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of "ask not what your country can do for you" in Detroit on Labor Day in 1960. So Detroit was really central to Democratic politics United States. Every Democratic candidate would start their fall campaigns in Cadillac Square.

David Maraniss

Country, Fall, Squares

"Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.

David Maraniss

Summer, Fall, Race

"Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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One of the tracks that I have is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - by the way, that's Bach's second son - Emanuel Bach's variations on "Le Folie." You'll definitely hear - I mean, I think if we listen to, say, the last couple of minutes of that track, there's a wide range of colors that the harpsichord is capable of. And I think, you know, that gives lie to the assumption that it doesn't have that kind of variety. And I think it very much speaks for itself.

Mahan Esfahani

Couple, Lying, Mean

"How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.

Joseph Priestley

Children, Lying, Numbers

Joseph Priestley (1831). “The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt”, p.196

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Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in technique, climate, grape, soil and culture ensure that wine is, to the ordinary drinker, the most unpredictable of drinks, and to the connoisseur the most intricately informative, responding to its origins like a game of chess to its opening move.

Roger Scruton

Moving, Wine, Games

Roger Scruton (2013). “I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

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Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

Carroll Quigley

Civilization, Perspective, Historical

Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

David Ricardo

Country, Gold, Coins

David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.46

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