Estimates Quotes
57 quotes by 54 authors
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long…
— Frances M. Young
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If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants,…
— Steven Chu
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Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States.…
— Barack Obama
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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the…
— Naomi Oreskes
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It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to…
— Homer Bone
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city…
— Warren Christopher
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people…
— Sydney J. Harris
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As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient…
— Sigmund Freud
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How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling climate…
— Don Aitkin
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It was apparent that many of the speeds used in the estimates were too large. The scale guiding wind speeds wasn't in tune with reality.
— Joe Schaefer
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It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million,…
— Richard Leakey
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The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is possible to say…
— William Ernest Bowman
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Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90…
— Alvin Plantinga
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A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is…
— Neville Goddard
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Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Awestruck,…
— Roy Scheider
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The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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