#estimate

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#came #concepts #correct #devices #early

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry. ↗

— James Monroe

#cavalry #department #estimated #force #infantry

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#able #always #because #comfortable #comfortable life

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant. ↗

— Christina Romer

#estimates #gdp #highly #increase #nearly

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world. ↗

— Adam Sedgwick

#attributes #created #days #estimate #his

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#businesses #contribute #estimates #jobs #net

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#each #her #other #own #underestimates

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#biased #both #crimes #data #dead

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#locke-lamora #underestimated #freedom