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• Nobody likes paying tolls. It's difficult to explain the concept of dynamic tolling, where the price varies to maintain the flow of traffic. And it's difficult to explain why highway widenings don't wind up helping commuters in the long run.

  Robert James Thomson

  Running, Wind, Long

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it will vary. Probability is the expectation founded upon partial knowledge.

  George Boole

  Acceptance, Thinking, Expectations

  George Boole (2007). “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought”, p.244, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I like writing and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

  Pain, Writing, Thinking

  "Gbenga Akinnagbe talks Damages, Nurse Jackie and upcoming film projects". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be there at the other end, that you're trying to represent them in the best light, who they are as they're harnessing these roles. The methods vary from actor to actor.

  Atom Egoyan

  Jobs, Light, Trying

  "Atom Egoyan Discusses Seeking Truth With Devil’s Knot". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.

  Alexander Wang

  Girl, Mind, Answers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I'm writing about topics I find interesting, so I can't gripe too much.

  Neal Stephenson

  Writing, Interesting, Too Much

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.

  David Fisher

  Spiritual, Pride, Men

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• I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Strong, Together

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• It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do.

  Mary Midgley

  Trying, World, Fixed

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• I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time), and even within the same community, and likely within the same schools. This variability makes it difficult to offer generalized responses without accompanying caveats.

  Richard A. Falk

  School, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My exercise varies from yoga to Pilates. The yoga provides me with achieving my balance and mental relaxation, whereas the Pilates allow me to work my inner core through stretching and keeping my muscles toned.

  Erin Heatherton

  Yoga, Exercise, Relaxation

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• The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.

  Kevin Hart

  Laughter, Pain, Two

  "Getting Real with Kevin Hart". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. January 17, 2014.

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• It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.

  Erich Fromm

  Reality, Practice, Choices

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Heart of Man”, p.132, Lantern Books

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• We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Children, Russia, Europe

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “Collected Works of J Krishnamurti 1956-1957: A Light to Yourself”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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• The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

  Edmund A. Opitz

  Class, Political, Individual

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• God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe.

  Isaac Newton

  Law, Different, Density

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.186, Cambridge University Press

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• When it comes right down to it, people are quite similar. We may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and economic circumstances, and our attitudes and perspectives may vary. But in the heart-where it really counts-we're a lot alike.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Attitude, Heart, People

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• Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.

  Michael Schudson

  Character, Government, Age

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.16, Routledge

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• On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.

  Paul Dano

  Character, Ballet, Jazz

  Source: collider.com

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• Some pray to marry the man they love,
  My prayer will somewhat vary; That I love the man I marry.

  Rose Pastor Stokes

  Prayer, Men, Praying

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• The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Variables, Too Much, Constant

  "Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy". Book by Robert Anton Wilson, 1979.

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• A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.

  Daniel Hack Tuke

  Sex, Opposites, Erotic

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• Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.

  Xunzi

  Passion, Men, Justice

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• The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.

  Minor White

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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