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Calculating Quotes

Rich Lowry quote: "Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked..."
Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation. Rich Lowry
Donella Meadows quote: "Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and..."
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. Donella Meadows
Warren E. Burger quote: "Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve..."
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. Warren E. Burger
John Henry Newman quote: "Calculation never made a hero."
Calculation never made a hero. John Henry Newman
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. Terry Prachett
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones. Georg Simmel
Kate studied the clipboard and the pocket calculator on the floor."Did you figure out how to work that thing?"You don't have to be a CPA to use a calculator."I meant the clipboard."Ha ha. Nora Roberts
Linda McCartney quote: "But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about..."
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating. Linda McCartney
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. Sun Tzu
I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it. Hillary Clinton
People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. Hal Sparks
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks. Neil Gaiman
Richard Russo quote: "His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely..."
His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing. Richard Russo
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance. Jodi Picoult
I imagine I sow cuttings of Anna-Louise's hair, like the fine stems of dried flowers, and watch sunflowers grow from the cuttings. I imagine I bury a pocket calculator with liquid crystals spelling her name, then watch the earth shoot forth lightning bolts. 'We should open up a seafood house together,' Anna-Louise says when she wants to torture me. Now that's love. Doug Coupland

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