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Quotes About Variation

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
I think … you know how they say no two snowflakes are ever alike?" She nods. "Well, I don't think that's true. I think a lot of snowflakes are alike … and I think a lot of people are alike too.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all the universe -- that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each hour, each moment, there is change.
~ Brian Herbert
Admit it, you're probably a very different person at work than you are at home. Everyone needs to be someone else sometimes.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
In general, human societies are not innovative. They are hierarchical and ritualistic. Suggestions for change are greeted with suspicion: they imply an unpleasant future variation in ritual and hierarchy: an exchange of one set of rituals for another, or perhaps for a less structured society with fewer rituals. And yet there are times when societies must change.
~ Carl Sagan
But if humans can make new varieties of plants and animals, must not nature do so also? This related process is called natural selection. That life has changed fundamentally over the aeons is entirely clear from the alterations we have made in the beasts and vegetables during the short tenure of humans on Earth, and from the fossil evidence.
~ Carl Sagan
That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.
~ Norm Crosby
We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.
~ Mary Ann Mobley
Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time.
~ Karen Tei Yamashita
The only constant was change.
~ Katherine Howe
But that's the modus operandi of fashion, isn't it—to move antithetically, almost Hegelian in its constant vacillation between seemingly opposing extremes?
~ G. Bruce Boyer
Frankie had always played the same songs, but they had nonetheless always been different, changing in a thousand different ways that Kevin could scarcely name.
~ Gael Baudino
Not only human beings, all creatures including plants and animals can have genetic disorders. So, its a part of nature. Lets accept it in natural way rather than creating discriminations.
~ Ganga Sagar Pant
Kakor psi imajo tudi ljudje radi ponavljanje. Lov za žogo, dirkanje v krogu, drsanje po drsalnici. Kajti tako kot je vsaki? podobno, je tudi razli?no.
~ Garth Stein
The engagement deficit isn't about what people do at work, but how they're managed. In Gallup's research, 70 percent of the variation in engagement scores was explained by differences in the attitudes and behaviors of the employee's boss.
~ Gary Hamel
The combined effects of mutation, natural selection and the random process of genetic drift cause changes in the composition of a population. Over a sufficiently long period of time, these cumulative effects alter the population's genetic make-up, and can thus greatly change the species' characteristics from those of its ancestors.
~ Brian Charlesworth
The combined effects of mutation, natural selection and the random process of genetic drift cause changes in the composition of a population. Over a sufficiently long period of time, these cumulative effects alter the population's genetic make-up, and can thus greatly change the species' characteristics from those of its ancestors. We
~ Brian Charlesworth
Such a process of change will be especially likely if a population is exposed to a changed environment, where a somewhat different set of characteristics is favoured from those already established by selection.
~ Brian Charlesworth
when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.
~ Brian Jay Jones
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
~ Buddha
there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
~ Herman Melville
beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.
~ Ian Mcewan
Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world. Like a spode dinner plate. Or a single cell. Or, as daisy says, like a Jane Austen novel. When player and listener together know the route so well, the pleasure is in the deviation, the unexpected turn against the grain. To see a world in a grain of sand. So it is, Perowne tries to convince himself, with clipping an aneurysm: absorbing variation on an unchanging theme.
~ Ian Mcewan
beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the other hand, has infinite variation.
~ Ian Mcewan