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• I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

  Kip Winger

  Children, Style, Albums

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• Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Reality, Relief

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• Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Wise, Reading, Book

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

  William Hazlitt

  Titles, Lasts, Catchers

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Table-talk: Or, Original Essays”, p.143

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• We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Men, Opposites

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt. Chapter: "On Criticism", 1822.

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• Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

  Richard P. Feynman

  World, Worthwhile

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.174, Princeton University Press

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• I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Book, Interesting, Stuff

  "Exclusive Interview: Joseph Gordon-Levitt on (500) DAYS OF SUMMER". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 16, 2009.

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• I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

  Bill Reid

  Growing Up, People, Individuality

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• I believe that true success in bodybuilding nutrition comes from some variety in diet. It allows for more creativity, enables a bodybuilder to enjoy diversity, and causes less stress emotionally and mentally compared to a very basic diet for which a bodybuilder will lose enthusiasm for over time.

  Robert Cheeke

  Stress, Believe, Creativity

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.66, Book Publishing Company

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• The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Essence, Unity, Essence Of Beauty

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• In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Men, Behaviour, Opinion

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p 34, 1957.

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• In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, World, Down And

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.465, Wildside Press LLC

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• I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

  Rachel Carson

  Past, Reality, Numbers

  Preface to "Humane Biology Projects" by the Animal Welfare Institute, 1961.

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• Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

  Joseph Epstein

  Sex, Possibility

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• There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.

  Evan Esar

  Common Sense, Stupidity, Kind

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• So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!

  Horace Mann

  Men, Class, Names

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.61

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• In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made films in Italy and other places, I was used in different ways. I was rather often cast as crazy people, maniacs. It was very good for me and it was fun because it is nice to play crazy people if you are not in reality. And I think perhaps that changed how Ingmar saw me. Suddenly I was on the more magical side of his world, playing the people with fantasies, variety, the artists.

  Erland Josephson

  Fun, Crazy, Nice

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• The man who invented Doritos has passed away at the age of 97. He asked to be buried with the creator of Fritos and Cheetos in a variety pack.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Age, Doritos

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• Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ancient Literature, Want, Sanity

  Matthew Arnold, Robert Henry Super (1960). “On the Classical Tradition”, p.17, University of Michigan Press

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• All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.

  Philip Roth

  Player, Self, Identity

  "The Counterlife". Book by Philip Roth, 1986.

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• The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning, or difficulty for the interpreter in identifying just what the meaning in question is: it means the old meanings of ambiguity with a difference. It means uncertainty of meaning (of a word or combination of words) purposefully incorporated in a literary composition for the attainment of the utmost possible variety of meaning-play compressible within the verbal limits of the composition.

  Laura Riding

  Mean, Play, Differences

  "On Ambiguity". "Rational Meaning and Supplementary Essays". Book by Laura Riding and Schuyler B. Jackson, edited by William Harmon, 1997.

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• All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spring, Men, Numbers

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 8, 1792.

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• In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. This form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Soul, May

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 16, 1792.

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• Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Light, Doors, Trouble

  "Renoir: His Life and Work". Book by François Fosca, p. 176, 1975.

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• Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.

  Tony Robbins

  Spices, Want, Variety Is The Spice Of Life

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