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I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated. ↗

— Kevin Smith

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A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress. ↗

— Carl Albert

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A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. ↗

— Isaac Newton

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The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage. ↗

— James Payn

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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions. ↗

— Eddie Perez

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