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If I may discuss the idea of explosion. The number of regulations issued in the last two years is approximately the same as the number issued in the last two years of the Bush administration. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

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So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. ↗

— Douglas Haig

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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. ↗

— John Tukey

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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. ↗

— John Tukey

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An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one. ↗

— John Tuley

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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down. ↗

— Annette Funicello

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Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path? ↗

— Theodore Gericault

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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

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