Quotes with roughly

  • The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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  • Bob Ney After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Burt Rutan By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • William C. Bryant Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Percy Wynham Lewis Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
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  • Lewis Carroll Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Alan Coren The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
    Alan Coren
    English humourist, writer and satirist (1938 - 2007)
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  • Victor Hugo The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Maureen Dowd Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
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