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Calculation Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
- Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
- Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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- It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin
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- His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla
- If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most… — Nikola Tesla
- If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
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- We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of… — Ludwig von Mises