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• The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

  Ernest Istook

  School, Kids, Parent

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• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

  Aldous Huxley

  Moral Behavior, Numbers, Quality

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Color, Skins

  Towne v. Eisner (1918)

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• Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, School, Years

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, Race, Class

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• Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

  Jared Diamond

  Independent, Innovation, Openness

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• But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

  Amartya Sen

  Teacher, Years, Ideas

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• Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

  Johannes Brahms

  Real, Harmony, Used

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• The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wise, Wisdom, Emotional

  "Distilled Wisdom". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145, 1964.

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• Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

  Regina Brett

  Showing Up, Life Is, Day To Day

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• Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dark, Men, Race

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 46

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• Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.

  Robert Graves

  Strong, Philosophy, Party

  Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

  William Ralph Inge

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Noble

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• [...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wise, Hands, Example

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• People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

  W. H. Auden

  Pay The Price, People, Grumbling

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• But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work

  Donna Tartt

  Pace, Literature

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• I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean neighborhoods, among people like themselves, around people with whom they feel comfortable. That can be exclusive, it could be exclusionary. It could be racist, classist, genocidal, and so on. Most people like comfort. Now what provides a sense of comfort varies. I do think that people who like living in cities like small-scale human interaction and they like the social dimensions of aesthetic diversity that Jane Jacobs wrote about.

  Sharon Zukin

  Thinking, People, Diversity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents.

  James M. Barrie

  Night, House, Parent

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• Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Editors, Wake Up

  "Copy Desk: Don Podesta and Bill Walsh". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. February 16, 2005.

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• God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

  John Henry Newman

  Medicine, Perfection, Soul

  John Henry Newman (2002). “Prayers, Verses, and Devotions”, p.337, Ignatius Press

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• This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

  Sarah Dessen

  Firefly, Night, World

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.64, Penguin

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• The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

  Oliver Lodge

  Quality, Different, States

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

  Gilbert Murray

  Fashion, Imagination, Age

  Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.20, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.

  Richard V. Allen

  Team, Years, Names

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• R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.

  Douglas Adams

  Stress, Two, Variables

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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