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Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.
All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
The more variance I have in my days, the more exciting each thing is and the more I enjoy doing it.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
I need more left-footed goals. And shooting from outside the box - I need more variance of finishes.
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
As a nation we love our dialects, and there is a lot of regional variance in the names for different foods - barmcake, bap or bun anyone?
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.
A lot of people like me who worked in Republican politics had a personal set of beliefs on issues that were at variance with the candidates that we worked for.
For the Conservative Party to become the mouthpiece of energy monopolists is not only a political error; it is fundamentally at variance with the liberal economics they claim to espouse.
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.
CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
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.
The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with people from the East Coast - a little bit of variance on the coast - I'm from Ohio, and I understand that.
I think it would be great if in 50 years you could find out lots more about the conditions your child is going to have - and if we lived in a society that is so tolerant that many things that might now lead to abortion would then be seen as part of human variance.
It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
Ties of loyalty play an understandably important part in how most MPs interact with their own party and the supporters who have elected and sustained them in their careers. As I know personally it is the strain put on those ties which constitutes the most unpleasant aspect of being at variance with one's own party line.
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
