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• Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Atheist, Degrees, False Prophets

  "In His Name". Book by E. Christopher Reyes, p. 39, 2010.

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• We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Life, Sympathy, Eternity

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• The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.

  Zero Mostel

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Freedom

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• While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Average, Numbers

  Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Watson in The Sign of Four (1890).

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• Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...]
  Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans.

  Steve McConnell

  Beer, Hands, Feet

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.16, Pearson Education

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• The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

  Margot Asquith

  Suffering, Human Nature, Capacity

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

  Ernst Mach

  Writing, Broken, Ink

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Immature, Age, Normal

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• How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.

  Samuel Beckett

  Years, Long, Answers

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.101, Grove Press

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• I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Strong, Years

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• The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

  John Steinbeck

  Eye, Color, Silence

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• I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Atheist, People, Effort

  "In His Name". Book by E. Christopher Reyes, p. 39, 2010.

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• At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds

  Michael Dorris

  Love, Loyalty, Grief

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• The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

  Pope Leo I

  Age, Salvation, Sanctify

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• The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded.

  Samuel Johnson

  Powerful, Flower, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.14

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• For the most part, I do not go out all that often, so it varies.

  Angie Everhart

  Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Independent, People, Atheism

  Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

  Lucretia Mott

  Lying, Civilization, Organized Mind

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• I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Play, People, Mad

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 20, 2014.

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• All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that it's true. Darwin didn't know the mechanism of heredity, but you don't have to. You just need to know the fact of it.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  People, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

  Karen Horney

  Culture, Normal, Courses

  Karen Horney (2013). “The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time”, p.15, Routledge

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• My weight is always perfect for my height - which varies.

  Nicole Hollander

  Perfect, Weight, Height

  Nicole Hollander (2017). “We Ate Wonder Bread”, p.2, Fantagraphics Books

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• Every McDonald's commercial ends the same way: Prices and participation may vary. I wanna open a McDonald's and not participate in anything. I wanna be a stubborn McDonald's owner. "Cheeseburgers?" "Nope! We got spaghetti, and blankets."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mcdonalds

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• As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.

  Heidi Julavits

  Somewhere Else, Want, Sometimes

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, Work Out, Way

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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