Quotes with calculating

  • 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.

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  • Bertil Ohlin As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Daisetz T. Suzuki Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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  • Arundhati Roy I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Samuel Johnson Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • J. G. Ballard 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
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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