#varian

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#hunger #hungry #nations #poor #pride

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. ↗

— Fred Davis

#any #anybody #centers #context #design

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attached #baggage #bred #case #category

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#deferred #judgment #men #often #own

Varian cringed as Merewyn faced him. If he looked half as bad as he suspected, he wouldn’thave blamed her had she run for the door. “You don’t have to do this.” She stepped into his arms. “Yes, Varian, I do.” She brushed the matted hair back from his face. “I don’t care what you look like. It’s you I love, not your looks. Your humor, your kindness, even that little snuffle snore you make when you sleep.” “I don’t snore.” She laughed. “Yes, you do.” And with that she pulled his lips to hers. ↗

— Kinley MacGregor

#knight-of-darkness #merewyn #varian #love

In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants. ↗

— Scott Adams

#being #company #creativity #elsewhere #fact

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#based #bias #cultural #culture #except

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. ↗

— Edward Coke

#certainty #contentions #mother #quiet #repose

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#arithmetic #arranging #convenient #mathematical #method

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#nationalist #other #pride #self-respect #substitute