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Autism is an extremely variable disorder.
Temple Grandin / Professor
Autism
Disorder
Variables
Extremely
Variable
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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
Douglas Horton /
Beauty
Constant
Imperfect
Ugliness
Variables
Variable
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One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan Perlis / Computer Scientist
Men
Constant
Variables
Variable
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I like to be a creative variable rather than sticking to a dogma.
Ashish Vidyarthi /
Dogma
Sticking
Variable
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
Joseph Addison / Essayist
Nature
Dresses
Fashion
Lady
Variable
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The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.
Jason Fried / Entrepreneur
Variable
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The variable that really boosts your performance is the actors around you.
Angourie Rice /
Boost
Performance
Variable
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All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
William Bligh / Governor
Travel
Adventure
Wind
Bay
Variable
Winds
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We're used to thinking of force as a stable phenomenon, but it has a cinematic variable, which is acceleration.
Santiago Calatrava / Architect
Acceleration
Cinematic
Force
Phenomenon
Stable
Thinking
Used
Variable
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Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.
Hannah Mills /
Sailing
Wind
Variable
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It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.
Bill Gurley / Venture Capitalist
Contribution
Critical
Fairly
Bundle
Customer
Estimate
Supporting
Variable
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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 /
Ballots
Fashion
National Standards
Standards
Uniforms
Variables
Cast
Elections
Counted
Decentralized
Federal
Highly
Uniform
Variable
Votes
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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 / Medical Doctor
Gravity
Process
Remove
Variables
Effect
Minimize
Processes
Scientific
Variable
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Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
Jerry Saltz / Art Critic
Abstraction
Intense
Nothingness
Seeming
Ugliness
Alternative
Brings
Complex
Extract
Relations
Variable
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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 / Sociologist
Equations
Manipulation
Missing
Three
Variables
Variable
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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 / Anthropologist
Deprived
Fall
Objects
Optimum
Quantity
Toxic
Variables
Above
Below
Experiences
Variable
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
Paul Di Filippo / Writer
Elements
Tragedy
Acknowledged
Universally
Variable
Widely
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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.
Conrad Wolfram /
Curriculum
Math
Resistance
Calculate
Variable
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The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
Burton Richter / Physicist
Arrows
Emissions
Nuclear
Sun
Wind
Arrow
Grasp
Highly
Shine
Variable
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I'm against having a Fed. It's socialism in its worst form. But until the Fed is gotten rid of, the only economic variable the poor have to counteract the injustices of the Fed is the minimum wage law.
Max Keiser / Broadcaster
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Socialism
Worst
Counteract
Fed
Gotten
Injustices
Rid
Variable
Wage
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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 / Anthropologist
Impact
Pursue
Stable
Unchanging
External
Further
Internal
Object
Passage
Shall
Variable
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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 / Professor
Capable
Children
Nonverbal
School
Ten
Years
Ages
Neurological
Ten Years
Variable
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My posture is changing constantly with different length clubs. I have to. Whether it's subconscious or not I'm still changing. That's going to put another variable. I said, 'Why can't we make the lengths all the same?'
Bryson Dechambeau /
Clubs
Length
Posture
Subconscious
Variable
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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 / Football Head Coach
East
East Coast
Elements
Instruction
Position
Talking
Team
Variables
Dealing
Spent
Teams
Variable
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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 Arrow / Economist
Deals
Memorial
Moved
Nobel
Prize
Research
Use
Cited
Directions
Production
Variable
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A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and are as complex and interesting and variable as any other group of people. We don't often capture that or write about it.
Margot Lee Shetterly /
Capture
Work Black People
Variable
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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 / Journalist
Subjective
Opposite
Month
No Time
Pass
Variable
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We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Philip K. Dick / Novelist
Changed
Clue
Deja Vu
Impression
Overwhelming
Reality
Living
Alteration
Were
Deja
Present
Occurs
Some
Reliving
Variable
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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 / Satirist
Catholic
Devotion
Dogmatic
Point Of View
Good I Am Game
Good Game I Am
Highly
Strictly
Variable
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I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
Ted Sarandos /
Devices
Head Start
Progressive
Rate
Highly
Seamlessly
Stream
Variable
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Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.
Carol S. Dweck / Professor
Responding
Success Good Failure
Emphasizing
Provides
Recipe
Variable
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And I'd get back to the cars being physical challenges to drive - to tame the beast. The cars we have at the moment are fantastic bits of engineering, but it's a little too comfortable, a little too easy. I think I'd go back to making the driver a bigger variable.
Christian Horner / Race Car Driver
Bits
Engineering
Driver
Tame
Variable
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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 / Literary Critic
Art
Determine
Expression
Factors
Permanent
Skeletons
Works
Enduring
Extremely
Forth
Primarily
Skeleton
Variable
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Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.
Irwin Rose /
Behavior
Concentration
Formation
Function
Measuring
Reactions
Steady
Biologists
Cell
Complex System
Initial
Rates
Variable
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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 / Business Person
Government
Benefits
Compensation
Health Care
Names
Suffering
Unemployment
Welfare
Workmen
Tax
Health Government Care
Businesses
Unlike
Insurance
Revenues
Suffers
Tax Revenues
Variable
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When I started working at NASA and understanding what the capabilities really were of the space station and the space program, one of the biggest draws for me was the ability to do experiments in space. We can do a number of experiments where gravity is actually a variable.
Kathleen Rubins /
Draws
Experiments
Gravity
Nasa
Space Program
Capabilities
Variable
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I wanted to create a toolkit which I would have wanted as an entrepreneur to use these principles of psychology in product design. Some startups totally forget the trigger. In some, the action is too complicated. Others don't have a variable reward, which maintains mystery.
Nir Eyal /
Design
Complicated
Entrepreneur
Principles
Psychology
Totally
Product
Reward
Startups
Trigger
Variable
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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 / Film Director
Costumes
Following
Fun
Fun Stuff
Path
Stories
Track
Locations
Map
Stick
Roughly
Variable
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The Fed's buying is far more important to the market price of U.S. debt than any other economic variable. If the Fed stops buying, it doesn't matter whether unemployment goes up or down. It doesn't matter whether inflation is higher or lower. Its influence on the market is dominant.
Porter Stansberry / Financial Analyst
Buying
Debt
Dominant
Economic
Higher
Inflation
Unemployment
Fed
Goes
Lower
Market
Stops
Price
Variable
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When you talk about the economic process of a society, sometimes we separate it into two stories. One is about monetary variables. But then, we very often assume the underlying arrangement, the other variable, is 'perfect competition,' which means people do whatever they are supposed to do.
Leonid Hurwicz /
Competition
Monetary
Arrangement
Assume
Underlying
Variable
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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 /
Obscure
Unpredictable
Reputations
Reveal
Revisionist
Variable
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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 / Entrepreneur
Financing
Internet
Size
Two
Variables
Scale
Businesses
Characterized
Companies
Costs
High
Small
Low
Medium
Relatively
Pulled
Rug
Sizes
Variable
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With physical prep work, you know if you go to the gym, you will get size. There's no chance it won't happen. The emotional prep work is a variable. You could step onto the set one day and have a disconnect with your thoughts and feelings and have a rough day acting because you can't quite tap into what you need.
Chris Evans / Actor
Gym
Rough
Size
Tap
Disconnect
No Chance
Onto
Prep
Variable
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The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative. As soon as one questions that unity, it loses its self-evidence; it indicates itself, constructs itself, only on the basis of a complex field of discourse.
Michel Foucault / Philosopher
Constructs
Discourse
Loses
Relative
Unity
Questions
Basis
Complex
Simply
Holds
Object
Soon
Variable
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If you had a robot out here calculating all the variables, I think you could potentially get really close to perfection, but from a human perspective, there's no way to understand all the wind. The wind is the biggest variable, and the grass length is the second biggest variable that we just don't have control over and never will.
Bryson Dechambeau /
Calculating
Grass
Length
Wind
Out Here
Potentially
Robot
Variable
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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 / Author
Men
Black And White
Borderline
Casual
Certain
Comfortable
Fine
Jeans
Looks
White
Archaic
Constantly
William
Grown
Wearing
Suede
Tie
Uniform
Variable
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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 / Literary Critic
Art
Certainty
Expression
Individual
Infinite
Intellect
Light
Mathematician
Perception
Thousand
Thousand Years
Years Ago
Original
Easily
Image
Least
Re-Created
Recapture
Variable
Wherever
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