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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. -- Marc Chagall
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. -- Victor Hugo
Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. -- Charles Darwin
Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. -- Gene Roddenberry
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth. -- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter. -- Zero Mostel
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature. -- Margot Asquith
Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. -- John C. Maxwell
Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary. -- Diane Ackerman
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. -- Samuel Hopkins Adams
The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages. -- Pope Leo I
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. -- Agatha Christie
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy. -- Bill Moyers
Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire. -- Vera Nazarian
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds -- Michael Dorris
Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115) -- Swami Satchidananda
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. -- Ernst Mach
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value. -- Claude Monet
Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...] Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans. -- Steve McConnell
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. -- Gene Roddenberry
Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting. -- Ellen Terry
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. -- Kay WalkingStick
Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine. -- Bob Glover
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. -- Jared Diamond
The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them. -- Ella Maillart
Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are. -- James Dobson
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common. -- Billy Gibbons
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. -- Baltasar Gracian
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years. -- Amartya Sen
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common. -- Maynard James Keenan
If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment. -- William Lilly
Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary. -- Ricky Jay
Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously. -- Olga Kurylenko
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.
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
You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end. -- Harbhajan Singh
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. -- George C. Williams
As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay. -- Ben Horowitz
I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways. -- Tim Berners-Lee
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
When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight. -- Nikola Tesla
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality. -- Paulo Freire
Casseroles don't have to be about canned ingredients and vegetables you normally wouldn't even think of eating alone, much less stuck in between layers of sauce and breadcrumbs. They can vary from everyone's favorite all-time casserole, macaroni and cheese, to the ultimate English casserole, Shepherd's Pie. -- Marcus Samuelsson
To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply. -- Alex Berenson
They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.' -- Nate Berkus
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
Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature. -- Guy Finley
Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly. -- Corin Nemec
Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing. -- Bill Dedman
The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary. -- Emily Dickinson
Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course. -- Aristotle
Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does. -- J. Willard Marriott
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental. -- William Hogarth
Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate. -- Edmund Waller
NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness. -- Donald Rumsfeld
He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune. -- Marie de France
The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such. -- J. Philippe Rushton
We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair -- Malcolm Gladwell
witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages. -- Patricia J. Williams
Seasons vary, circumstances change, feelings fluctuate, friendships cool, friends die, but Christ is ever the same. -- Octavius Winslow
The loves of men but vary in degrees-- They find no new expression for the flame. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary. -- Henry David Thoreau
As I've gotten older, I've come to realize how important it is to vary your workouts. -- Summer Glau
Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire, Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah -- Inspectah Deck
As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call -- Bill Walsh
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call. -- Bill Walsh
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call." -- Bill Walsh
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive. -- Claude Monet
Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around. -- Pat Brown
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age. -- Benjamin Cardozo
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I love performing in any medium, and more the opportunities you have to vary things, the more you learn. -- Cynthia Addai-Robinson
Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death. -- J. A. Baker
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring. -- Heidi Julavits
Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell. -- FranÃ§ois Lelord
Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell. -- FranÃ§ois Lelord
Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us. -- Pindar
Some pray to marry the man they love, My prayer will somewhat vary; That I love the man I marry. -- Rose Pastor Stokes
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live. -- Andre Gide
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries -- Andre Nickatina
There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse. -- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. -- Charles Darwin
True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear. -- James D. Robinson III
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day -- Eduardo Galeano
Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know. -- Rod Serling
I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book. -- Victoria Chang
As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends. -- Thiruvalluvar
Maybe other people are like mirrors that we see ourselves in; versions of ourselves that vary dramatically depending on the particular cut of glass. -- Jonathan Hull
Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth. -- Lynn Margulis
My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story. -- Laurie Graham
Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel. -- Heather Headley
Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death! -- Max Heindel
I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard. -- Mike Tindall
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love. -- Swami Vivekananda
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters. -- James Anthony Froude
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year. -- Charles Stross
Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project. -- Bent Saether
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry. -- Anouk Aimee
The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it. It shouldn't need a recipe. -- Anthony Bourdain
These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it. -- Frances Wright
We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. -- Julian Huxley
Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights. -- Lord Chesterfield
Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all. -- Barbara Holland
If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role. -- Toni Trucks
Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists. -- Mariella Frostrup
Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle. -- Danny Boyle
When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice. -- Alan Ladd
The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it. -- Henry Parry Liddon
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
Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all. -- Sayyid Qutb
The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths. -- Cleve Jones
In food, it's really, like, either you're right, or you're wrong. You know, people's taste buds kind of vary, but there's a technique. Either you do it right, or you don't. -- Kelis
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
As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes. -- Luis Gutierrez

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