Quotes with variations

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• All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

  Lin Yü-tang
  Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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• Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.

  Bruno Maag
  Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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• The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

  The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)

  Boris Sidis
  Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• combination
• innumerable
• letterforms
• well-known
• particular
• unfamiliar

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