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Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man

Maynard James Keenan

Real, Men, Eyelashes

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To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.

William Blackstone

Law, Evil, Sorcery

William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England - Of Public Wrongs”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail.

Walter Scott

Mother, Dream, Morning

Walter Scott (2017). “Scott's Lady of the Lake”, p.152, Litres

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A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields... leading towards a "system of systems." [...] I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse...(vi) [...] the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness...

Kenneth E. Boulding

Animal, Self, Mobility

"General systems theory - the skeleton of science". Kenneth E. Boulding, Management Science, Volume 2, No. 3 (pp. 200-201), April 1956.

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Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

P. D. James

Together, Reason, Humans

P.D. James (2012). “The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Cordelia Gray Mystery”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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There is no love;
There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

W. H. Auden

Sadness, Envy, No Love

'In Praise of Limestone' (1951) l. 58

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Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product.

Eugene Fama

People, Decision, Risk

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In the financial markets, however, the connection between a marketable security and the underlying business is not as clear-cut. For investors in a marketable security the gain or loss associated with the various outcomes is not totally inherent in the underlying business; it also depends on the price paid, which is established by the marketplace. The view that risk is dependent on both the nature of investments and on their market price is very different from that described by beta.

Seth Klarman

Cutting, Loss, Views

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To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

Bertrand Russell

Silly, Simple, Errors

Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.66, Routledge

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

Men, Cities, Kind

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The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself - a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Men, People, Heaven

"A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 9), 1858.

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I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

A.J. Ayer

Book, Saws, Opinion

"Did atheist philosopher see God when he 'died'?". National Post, March 3, 2001.

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... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Knowing, Luck, Progress

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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

Yuri Milner

Trying, World, Corners

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I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.

St. Vincent

Spiritual, Stronger, Way

Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.

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I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

Richard D. Zanuck

Summer, School, Vacation

"Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.

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My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.

Sara Zarr

Country, Book, Editors

"Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr" by Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

John Hodgman

Wine, Experts, Magazines

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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There are no perfect life plan formulas. It’s a roller coaster with various exit ramps.

Jason Landry

Perfect, Exit, Roller Coaster

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Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in fruitful debate. The lively narratives, based on the author's experiences of working with various groups interested in using philosophical tools to clarify their thought and action, will engage a wide range of readers.

Gary Gutting

Plato, Teaching, Philosophical

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Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.

Toyin Odutola

Reality, Creating, Black

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There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the Internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government, and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world. That sparked violence in various parts of the world, including violence directed against Western facilities including our embassies and consulates.

Susan Rice

Government, People, United States

"State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, transcripts.cnn.com. September 16, 2012.

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Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.

Antonin Scalia

Thinking, Order, Law

"Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co., 491 U.S. 1". supreme.justia.com. June 15, 1989.

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The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

W. G. Sebald

Slave, Economy, Century

W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

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Personally, I’ve gotten so that I now use a kind of two-track analysis. First, what are the factors that really govern the interests involved, rationally considered? And second, what are the subconscious influences where the brain at a subconscious level is automatically conclusions in various ways — which, by and large, are useful — but which often malfunction? One approach is rationality… And the other is to evaluate the psychological factors that cause subconscious conclusions — many of which are wrong.

Charlie Munger

Two, Track, Brain

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