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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. -- Voltaire
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. -- Rene Descartes
Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her. -- W. C. Fields
Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike. -- Juvenal
Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her. -- Leonardo da Vinci
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things. -- Marcus Aurelius
Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. -- Blaise Pascal
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. -- Kenneth L. Pike
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. -- Michael Gambon
The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization. -- Mary Douglas
Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other. -- Fred Davis
Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine. -- Fred Davis
I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II. -- Ayelet Waldman
All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. -- Evan Davis
I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.' -- Stephen Hunter
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. -- Kenneth L. Pike
The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence. -- Hans Asperger
You must have tremendous power of focus to direct your life and not allow all these variant forces, different vibrations, to enter you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant. -- Eugen Drewermann
We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job. -- Joshua Schachter
With dogs, you don't need gurus. Dogs are forever in the moment. They are always a tidal wave of feelings, and every feeling is some variant of love. -- Cynthia Heimel
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else. -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice -- F. F. Bruce
As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly. -- Steve Yegge
Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last. -- Frederick Lenz
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material. -- Hermann Joseph Muller

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