Variant Quotes - page 2

We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job. (Joshua Schachter)
I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine. View quote
Fred Davis
Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other. View quote
Fred Davis
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like. View quote
David Graeber
another and longer variant: I now abandon work. It penetrated so deeply and so gently into me, I feel it and it gives me confidence in myself without effort. Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Colour and I are one. I am a painter. View quote
Paul Klee
Variant translative: Intercourse with women is the element of good manners. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable – which, I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live. View quote
Marilynne Robinson
Variant : This is what I call the American idea of freedom - a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice - the unchanging law of God. View quote
Theodore Parker
Variant: If the American people knew the corruption in our money system there would be revolution before morning. View quote
Henry Ford
Of a number of variant hypotheses about the same facts, that one is true which shows why facts, which in the other hypotheses remain unrelated, are as they are, i. e., which demonstrates their orderly and rational mathematical connexion. View quote
Johannes Kepler
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by. (Augustine of Hippo)
Unsourced variant: The only way to win a war is to prevent it. View quote
George C. Marshall
The requirements of enforcing a system of price and wage controls shed major light on the totalitarian nature of socialism - most obviously, of course, on that of the German or Nazi variant of socialism, but also on that of Soviet-style socialism as well. View quote
George Reisman
Variant: They did unto others what they would not have others do unto them, an immoral principle that is the basic premise of the art of war. View quote
Jules Verne
...We know at least since Spinoza that joy and its variant lead to a greater functional perfection, and that sorrow and related effects are unhealthy and should therefore be avoided. But music allows us to feel pain and pleasure simultaneously, both as players, and as listeners. [...] Music to me is sound with thought, and as Spinoza believed that rationality was the saving grace of the human being, then we must learn to look at music like this too. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Variant: In cattle excellence is displayed in strength of body; but in men it lies in strength of character.[citation needed]. View quote
Democritus
There is always going to be another variant. We cannot go on forever in permanent hair-on-fire, cancel Christmas, hand-jobs through a hazmat suit. View quote
Bill Maher
Many writers believe that voice, which is character-based, is the same as style, which I believe is more author-based. The writer almost always has her own style, but I believe that in addition to being drawn to a particular author's style, readers are also drawn to the singularity of the fictive voice, which is somewhat variant from work to work... View quote
ZZ Packer
Variant (Another letter of condolence to another person, written soon after, using the first sentence of the above):. View quote
Albert Einstein