#calculate

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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

— Michael Douglas

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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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I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career. ↗

— Eva Mendes

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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. ↗

— George S. Patton

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I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects. ↗

— Orson Pratt

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Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. ↗

— Knute Rockne

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