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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. -- Douglas Horton
Autism is an extremely variable disorder. -- Temple Grandin
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- Alan Perlis
To be is to be the value of a variable. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. -- Joseph Addison
All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds. -- William Bligh
It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution. -- Bill Gurley
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. -- Jerry Saltz
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards. -- Thomas E. Mann
If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing. -- Talcott Parsons
Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on. -- Laurel Clark
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. -- Gregory Bateson
Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable. -- Paul Wolfowitz
If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. -- Gregory Bateson
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
My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use. -- Kenneth Joseph Arrow
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. -- Meg Whitman
I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable. -- Bill Parcells
Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all. -- Joshua Foer
Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable. -- George Edward Woodberry
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed. -- Martin Filler
I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice. -- Stephen Colbert
You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path. -- Gus Van Sant
Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing it constantly); less certain in his suits, which sometimes look borderline archaic; and variable in casual. But completely comfortable in the Sloane uniform of non-designer jeans and chocolate-brown suede loafers. He'll look fine in Boden. -- Peter York
On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big. -- Jeff Bezos
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness. -- George Edward Woodberry
There is no such thing as a free variable. -- Alan Perlis
That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. -- Thomas Huxley
Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it. -- William James
The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God. -- Jose Bergamin
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest. -- Ambrose Bierce
Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves. -- Luc de Clapiers
the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. -- Hannah More
"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable." -- Alexander Dewdney
Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value -- John Kao
The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable. -- Hugh S. Johnson
In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. -- Walter J. Phillips
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery. -- Albert Ellis
We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die. -- Jerry Pournelle
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. -- Hugh Laurie
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. -- Hugh Laurie
Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over. -- Chris Abani
Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what. -- Cameron Jace
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. -- William H. Seward
You make one tiny variable and so help me, I'll have you slaughtered where you sit. (Kiefer) He's just such a nice man. (Nykyrian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading. -- Norm MacDonald
A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities. -- Leonhard Euler
In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress. -- Tom Gross
O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable -- William Shakespeare
As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. -- Seth Berkley
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. -- Richard Dawkins
Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed. -- Stephen Covey
But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant. -- Faith Hunter
In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound -- Edgar Allan Poe
The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former. -- Leslie White
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot. -- Bill Drayton
Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited. -- Frederick Lenz
Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited. -- Frederick Lenz
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone . -- Karl Marx
There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated. -- Georg Cantor
Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable. -- Paul Wolfowitz
The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions. -- Ken Block
Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English. -- James F. Cooper
Germany is the new pig. Germany depends on exports and its markets are drying up. When the Germans start getting 10% unemployment, 15% unemployment, which is the real variable, how are they going to handle it? -- George Friedman
O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! -- Walter Scott
Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake. -- Kent Beck
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. -- Thomas Sowell

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