#calculate

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. ↗

— Anne Tyler

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The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state. ↗

— Craig Benson

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When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move. ↗

— Michael Douglas

#calculated #calls #heartfelt #hurts #making

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#calculate #cannot #europe #fled #holocaust

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country. ↗

— Charles Tupper

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The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#calculated #clearly #message #russians #sent

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. ↗

— William Hurt

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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. ↗

— Gary Becker

#blacks #both #calculate #capital #different

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

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