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Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.
The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.
My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.
In skating there's always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that's what I liked about it.
The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.
The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.
I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.
Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.
It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.
Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.
Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.
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.
Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.
I think the future of lunar bases has to be somewhere around the South or North Pole. You have less variation in temperature and more daylight hours.
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half
It seems that the more we travel, the more we want flavour and variation in our food - and the bolder it is, the more addictive those flavours will be.
It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
It's totally crazy! I can't believe all the young kids doing it in competition now. It's pretty unbelievable to have an element variation named after me.
People may have said that without symptoms, you can't transmit Ebola. I'm not sure about that being 100 percent true. There's a lot of variation with viruses.
Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.
Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.
When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.
But if you ask me personally, when I am doing a negative role it comes real easy to me. It gives me the opportunity of bringing in attitude and a lot of variation.
We always do kinda like the bare bones representation or variation of the voice and drums, which is what we feel is the foundation or backbone of rapping and hip hop.
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.
Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.
I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!
Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.
... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.
The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.