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• The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Mean, Law, Different

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• A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Numbers, May, Cubes

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.192

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• The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Age, Constitution, Significance

  Benjamin N. Cardozo (2009). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.

  Christina Aguilera

  Running, Creativity, Artist

  MSN Live Chat, www.bignoisenow.com. 2000.

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• While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably ... We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Long, Democracy, Principles

  "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.

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• The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.

  Thomas Malthus

  Distance, Moon, Squares

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.111, eKitap Projesi

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• I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites.

  Roger Zelazny

  Struggle, Book, Thinking

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• The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope!

  Epes Sargent

  Clouds, Light, Sunrise

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• Once one realizes that magick works, and that it works based on scientific factors, the next step is to hone one's skill to reach repetitive success. What makes magick so interesting is that because we are individuals, the combination that unlocks the door to success will vary from person to person, yet the main thrust of the work operates on a specific set of scientific formulas that our scientists are only now beginning to fathom. The mystery, then, lies within each of us.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Lying, Doors, Skills

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• Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

  James Dobson

  Girl, Boys, Individual

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• The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

  Will Durant

  Law, Concentration Of Wealth, Politics

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

  Lynn Margulis

  Energy, Details, Sexuality

  "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.

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• Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

  George Eliot

  Vanity, Noses, Minutiae

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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• As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Country, Heart, Simple

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.102

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• God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Errors, Balance

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• Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.

  Leigh Hunt

  Nature, Eye, Animal

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• Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

  Diane Ackerman

  Jobs, Work, Coffee

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• The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Animal, Class, Culture

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.79, Bantam

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• Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

  Edmund Waller

  Hate, Never Change, States

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.111

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• the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.

  Fanny Burney

  Sex, Lines, May

  Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.233

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• witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Hunting, Age, Witch

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.

  Robert Graves

  Taken, Mixtures, Emergencies

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• The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate.

  Steven Pinker

  Culture, May, Superstitions

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.66, Penguin

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• What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.

  Guillermo Gonzalez

  Moon, Swings, Darkness

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• The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

  Aristotle

  Government, Law, Justice

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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