#calculating

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together. ↗

— John Stamos

#barry #barry white #been #calculating #cook

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#carbon #especially #farms #forests #how

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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