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• Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

  Emanuel Ax

  Successful, Waiting, Pieces

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• There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.

  Gloria Allred

  Hurt, Endless

  "Gloria Allred's Fighting Spirit" by Leslie Bennetts, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed at random through wild populations, and to follow the laws of chance in their distribution to offspring. In other words, they are an agency producing variation of the kind which Darwin postulated as the raw material on which selection acts.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Reality, Agency, Law

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• Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing here and there so that not everything is perfectly in unison. It adds a texture you can acquire only from having different voices. The variations lead to interesting quirks. It's an integral part of the Enya sound.

  Nicky Ryan

  Writing, Voice, Interesting

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• I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

  James Taylor

  Writing, Opposites, Pages

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

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• Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

  Debra Winger

  Giving, Stories, Granted

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• There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Past, Novelty, Tradition

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• What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Space, Body, Shapes

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• To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

  John Steinbeck

  Honesty, Men, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

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• How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.

  Timothy Zahn

  Voting, Black, Democracy

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• There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

  Jacqueline Carey

  Patterns, Endless, Theme

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Interesting, Waiting

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• Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)

  Glen Duncan

  Beautiful, Mean, Animal

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Pride, Doe

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• Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated.

  Walter A. Shewhart

  May, Causes, Found

  "Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product". Book by Walter A. Shewhart, p. 8, 1931.

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• It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Book, Play, Interesting

  Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.

  Alexander Kotov

  Sacrifice, Views, Literature

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• It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say, a rhythmical movement regulated by itself in which variations and pulsations form a part of the artistic design.

  Hans Richter

  Expression, Giving, Design

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• The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after.

  Joe Queenan

  Philosophy, Believe, Ocean

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• Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

  Lillian Hellman

  Confidence, Statistician, Frequency

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• With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.

  Charles Tilly

  Thinking, Hands, Political

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• The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the quality of its work. Therefore, the better the job a regulator does the less information it gets about how to improve.

  Gerald Weinberg

  Jobs, Hard Work, Science

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• A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Memories, Emotional, What If

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• Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Moving, Years, Algorithms

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• Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Book, Memorization, Chess

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