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• I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.

  Juliette Drouet

  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Juliette Drouet (1914). “The love letters of Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo”

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• That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

  Thomas Huxley

  Independent, Political, Independence

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.194, Cambridge University Press

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• Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.

  Immanuel Kant

  Country, Science, Law

  Immanuel Kant (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)”, p.812, Delphi Classics

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• More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends.

  David Berlinski

  Years, Ideas, Interesting

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Art, Drawing, Estimating

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• It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

  George Santayana

  Song, Art, Math

  George Santayana (2014). “Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

  Myles Munroe

  People, Tiles, Stuff

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• A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

  David Einhorn

  Car, Risk, Doe

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• If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

  Andrew Weil

  Running, Effort, Email

  "Pressing The Bar" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2013.

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• Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Powerful, Fear, Groups

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster

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• Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

  Rich Lowry

  Naked, Likes, Advantage

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• As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

  Micah Lexier

  Mistake, Moving, Getting Older

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2013.

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• What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Economic, Monetary System

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Genius, Danger

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.83

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• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

  Aleister Crowley

  Integrity, Ambition, Principles

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• I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Works Of Art, Products

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• There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.

  John Brunner

  War, Stupid, Responsibility

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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• Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Stress, Way

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.148, Modern Library

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• 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.

  Lionel Tiger

  Passion, Animal, Thinking

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• Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

  Todd Gitlin

  Fun, Emotional, America

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• I do think there are very few extreme right-wing gay Republicans. Although it depends how you define "extreme right-wing." They're making a political calculation.

  Kirby Dick

  Gay, Thinking, Wings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The closet exists because people don't talk about it, so that people going into political careers make a calculation early on. They say to themselves, "well, the closet is under the radar, I can do this."

  Kirby Dick

  Careers, People, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are by a factor of two.

  Emilio G. Segre

  Ideas, Two, Differences

  Epigraph by Emilio G. Segre in Richard Rhodes' book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (p. 8), 1986.

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• I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Tattoo, Night, Used

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• My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Errors, Appreciate

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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