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• There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Games, Play, Skills

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 119), 1991.

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• Antes del advenimiento de la civilización del Tercer Estado (mercantilismo, capitalismo), la ética social que se sancionaba religiosamente en Occidente consistía en realizar el propio ser y alcanzar la propia perfección dentro de los parámetros fijos que definían claramente la propia naturaleza individual y el grupo al que se pertenecía. La actividad económica, el trabajo y el beneficio sólo se justificaban en la medida en que eran necesarios para el sustento y para asegurar la dignidad de una existencia conforme al propio estado, sin que el instinto inferior del interés propio o del beneficio se antepusiera.

  Julius Evola

  Ser, Civilización, Perfección

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• El examen de conciencia tiene un importante valor educativo. Nos enseña a mirar con sinceridad nuestra propia vida, a compararla con la verdad del Evangelio y a evaluarla con parámetros no sólo humanos, sino extraídos de la Revelación divina. La comparación con los Mandamientos, con las Bienaventuranzas y, sobre todo, con el Precepto del amor, representa la primera gran "escuela de penitencia".

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Educational, School, Important

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• With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or data patterns representing it, to survive a big crunch and exist again in the next cycle of creation. Such an entity might even have science sufficient to allow it to influence the parameters for the next cycle, creating a designer universe into which that entity itself will be reborn already armed with billions of years worth of knowledge and wisdom.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Technology, Data, Creating

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• The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

  Carlos Castañeda

  Reality, Historical, Normal

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• There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters are of that.

  Lamar Alexander

  War, Iraq, Numbers

  "News From CNN" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2004.

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• Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!

  Pope Francis

  Food, Giving, Excess

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• I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

  Ron Kind

  Leadership, Believe, Important

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• The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how to behave, are thrown together daily in a kind of massive petri dish in which all kinds of uncharted, little-understood dynamics are at work. There is no other place where so many people from different walks of life-different ages, races, classes, religions, genders, political preferences, lifestyle choices, levels of psychological stability-mingle so freely.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Lifestyle Choices, Race, Class

  Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.6, Vintage

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• You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Baby, Order, Monsters

  "I can be a real arrogant brat" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2003.

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• Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

  Veerappa Moily

  Commodity Prices, Oil, Marketing

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• What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

  J. G. Ballard

  Death, Children, Car

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• Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.

  Karl-Henrik Robert

  Inspiring, Dad, Rain

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• Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Management, Behavior, Profit

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• Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

  Abdul Kalam

  Yield, Numbers, Nuclear

  "India's A.P.J. Abdul Kalam". Interview with Time, content.time.com. November 30, 1998.

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• I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Inspirational, Learning, Fighting

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• …Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mean, Usual, Normalcy

  Jasper Fforde (2003). "Perdido en un buen libro", Viking Adultos

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• Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become like a language: to have music always so that the silence doesn't overwhelm you, to perform your work exquisitely well so that your time is filled. You have to allow yourself to open up until you are the exact size of the place you live, no more or else you get restless. No less, or else you drown. There are rules; there are ways of being and not being.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Running, Distance, Skills

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• It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

  David Sedaris

  Live Your Life, Strict

  David Sedaris (2000). "Yo hablar bonito un día"

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• I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters

  David Sedaris

  Live Your Life, Promise, Refrigerators

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• Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Bounce

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• These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

  Grant Morrison

  Character, Play, Twelve

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• As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

  Larry Wall

  Would Be, Routine, Definitions

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• Tengo ciertos parámetros morales que no cruzo al escribir; no escribo sobre adulterio ni sobre niños que tienen relaciones prematrimoniales.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sexo, Escritura, Niños

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• A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

  Bruce Tulgan

  Arbitrary, Rewards, Conformity

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