#variation

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

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Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

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I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them. ↗

— Sasha Cohen

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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. ↗

— Richard Owen

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After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

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A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money. ↗

— David Ricardo

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In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed. ↗

— David Ricardo

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If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite. ↗

— James Taylor

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To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

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