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«I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Chance,
Funny
| Keywords:
calculation, chances, identical, lotteries, lottery
«In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.»
Author: Franklin Pierce Adams
(Columnist, Journalist, Translator)
| Keywords:
calculation, debate, one hundred, termination
«Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.»
Author: Henry R. Luce
(Editor, Publisher)
| About:
Business,
Foresight,
Future
| Keywords:
business deal, calculation, continual, dealing, exercise, foresight, instinctive, occupation
«Calculation never made a hero.»
«If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.»
Author: Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
| Keywords:
accurate, calculation, exceed, regulation, regulations
«Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.»
«Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.»
«Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Common sense,
Experience
| Keywords:
applied, calculation, composed, prevision, sense experience
«Common sense is calculation applied to life.»
«If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
calculation, cleaved, cleaving, cleft, clefts, comprehended, concur, concurred, concurring, concurs, confined, description, detect, detected, entireness, ignorance of the law, infer, inferred, infers, infinite number, instances, irregularity, Laws of nature, notions, one form, outline, outlines, phenomenon, points of view, profile, profiles, profiling, seemingly, The Traveler, traveler, view as, vitiated, vitiating
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