Quotes About Variance

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Pure monetary theory, however, cannot explain why in one country the inflationary process proceeds so much further or faster than in another.

Tolstoy said that "each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own—

war, like fortune, doesn't touch all folk with the same hand.

I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

Not everyone has to get the same things all the time in order for life to be fair.

The Negro comes in many colors. Dark. Black. Blacker. Blackest. Blacker than night. Black as hell. Black as tar.

Year-to-year variances, however, cannot consistently be in our favor. Even if our partially-owned businesses continue to perform well in an economic sense, there will be years when they perform poorly in the market. At such times our net worth could shrink significantly. We will not be distressed by such a shrinkage; if the businesses continue to look attractive and we have cash available, we simply will add to our holdings at even more favorable prices.

We have not had a free market in real estate for eighty years," Ellen Dunham-Jones, Georgia Tech professor of architecture and coauthor of Retrofitting Suburbia, told me. "And because it is illegal to build in a different way, it takes an immense amount of time for anyone who wants to do it to get changes in zoning and variance. Time is money for developers, so it rarely happens.

There is not just one entry route that purports to explain all types of female criminality.

We have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition…

Still, however, she had the sensation of there being something more than immediately appeared, in Mr Elliot's wishing, after an interval of so many years, to be well received by them. In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance.

I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty separate worlds.

Todas as famílias felizes se parecem, cada família infeliz é infeliz à sua maneira.

There's nothing that everyone likes in the world. People have different opinions. It's just the way of living. I know that there will be differences.

todos nacemos sin libertad y desiguales: sujetos a nuestra herencia física y psicológica y a las costumbres y tradiciones de nuestro grupo; conformados de forma distinta en cuanto a salud y fuerza, capacidad mental y cualidades de carácter.

By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.

It's like Tolstoy's quote: "All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." All

To increase positive variance is to welcome humanity and spontaneity into the system.