Calculating Quotes

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But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating. — Linda McCartney
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct… — Frederic Bastiat
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay… — Anna Quindlen
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action. — Anna Lappe
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… — Georg Simmel
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself… — Aneurin Bevan
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy… — Mary Stewart
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of… — J. C. R. Licklider
When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed… — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using… — Max Frisch
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that… — Archimedes
The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for every attack there… — Franz Stampfl
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that… — James McCosh
If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be… — Charles Francis Richter
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where… — Edsger Dijkstra
DAILY TRAINING in the Art of Peace allows your inner divinity to shine brighter and brighter. Do not concern yourself with the right and wrong… — Morihei Ueshiba
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. — Samuel Johnson
Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine. — Louis Stanley
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within… — Alexander Kotov

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