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  • The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

    Country   Sea   Survivor  
    "Interview: Colin Farrell and Neil Jordan on Ondine". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.
  • Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is formed slowly, but it preserves every principle which it has once acquired; it grows and strengthens itself incessantly in the midst of the many variations and errors of the human mind. It's chief attribute is clearness; it has no marks to express confused notations. It brings together phenomena the most diverse, and discovers the hidden analogies which unite them.

    Confused   Errors   Space  
    Joseph Fourier (2007). “The Analytical Theory of Heat”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.
  • You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.

    Music   Song   Heart  
    Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 1”, p.136, M-y books ltd
  • Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.

    Father   Issues   Long  
  • How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.

  • There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

    Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.35, Pan Macmillan
  • I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.

  • Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

    "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.
  • The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change.

    Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.

    "Toward a new philosophy of biology: observations of an evolutionist". Book by Ernst Mayr, p. 457, 1988.
  • We must understand variation.

  • Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

  • In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory...

    "What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1944.
  • Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it, seen from Black's point of view. Why does everybody try to copy the grandmasters' strange positional maneuvers in the 5. ... B-K2 variation, instead of fighting for the in intiative?

    Book   Fighting   Player  
  • I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

  • The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our ability to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicates that they are liars and put-on artists, the UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

    Liars   Artist   Law  
    John A. Keel (1970). “UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse”
  • Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

  • When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The Buddha himself taught differently according to the place, the occasion and the situation of those who were listening to him.

    His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.116, Penguin Books India
  • ...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes to life through light or by its surroundings... To capture some of this - I suppose that's lyricism.

    Photography   Crazy   Eye  
  • ...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

    Hands   Band   Variation  
    Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.7, Random House
  • Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

  • There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.

  • Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

    Funny   Life   Country  
    Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press
  • The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles, or even emphasizing different aspects of the same truth. This fails to recognize that the different 'variations' are often altogether different gospels. The Reformed gospel is completely different from the Roman Catholic gospel; a faith-based gospel is in direct contradiction to a works-based gospel; a truly evangelical gospel stands in contrast to an ultracharismatic gospel.

  • Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

  • The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.

    Stars   School   Moon  
  • It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like ten minutes long, with different variations and chord progressions and changes.

    Song   Technology   Long  
  • I've fallen for one girl too many who's wanted some variation of who I am and only that. It eats you alive.

  • Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

  • But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

    Love   Art   Order  
    Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.27, University of Chicago Press
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