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• And he said that 47%-that's pretty high-47% of Americans are basically welfare bums who are mooching off the government. And then he said, 'My job is not to worry about those people.' You know, where do people get this stuff that Mitt Romney is a heartless, calculating c**ksucker?

  Bill Maher

  Jobs, Government, People

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• I was really fascinated by the idea of how cunning and calculating Headless Horseman would be, and how much personality you can actually get from somebody when they're not expressing. They can do a lot of attitude, just within their body movements.

  Roberto Orci

  Attitude, Ideas, Personality

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs, but deep within, behind the scenes at a profounder level we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Song, Prayer, Thinking

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• Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!

  Mark Mason

  Reading, Engineering, Land

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say.

  John Kasich

  Vision, Needs, Next

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• I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Ambition, Mean, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

  Tamara Keith

  Voters, Moral, Cold

  "The Disconnect Between The Public And Private Hillary Clinton". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. July 26, 2016.

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• It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.

  Shankarananda

  Player, Two, Kaleidoscope

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• I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.

  Freeman Dyson

  Play, Athletic, Olympics

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to show up in the same areas: music, art, math, visual, spatial skills, and calendar calculating, although calendar calculating probably isn't quite as prominent in that group. They tend to show up quite quickly, or sort of explode on the scene and they then tend to have an obsessive sort of forceful quality about them in the same way as savant skills. So they tend to show up in the same ways.

  Darold Treffert

  Art, Math, Skills

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.

  Bruce Henderson

  Hands, Killers, Cold

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• In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

  Ada Lovelace

  Essentials, Purpose, Influence

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• The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Way, Firsts

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• I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.

  Mike Leigh

  Real, Mean, Independent

  "Big Think Interview With Mike Leigh". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in its explanation, why the work is done a in a particular way, and because the art of calculating is a practical occupation, it is clear that it is pertinent to concern oneself with the theory.

  Gersonides

  Art, Knowing, Perfection

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• Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting
  your fate entirely to someone else. It's about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a
  warm bath. It's about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Mean

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

  Franz Stampfl

  Brain, Essentials, Body

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• The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Sides, Opinion

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.257, Jester House Publishing

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• There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Player, Analogies, Chess

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.838, Xist Publishing

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• Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

  Justin Cronin

  Writing, Careers, Persons

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• Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Thinking, Done, Great Work

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• Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

  Anton Chekhov

  Self, Selfishness, Annihilation

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• All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Worry, Without God

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.500, Discovery House

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• People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Clever, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Education, Self, Two

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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