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• Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.

  Jay Baer

  Moving, Media, Littles

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• Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

  Garrett Hardin

  Hubris, Potency, Dangerous

  Garrett Hardin (1995). “Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos”, p.73, Oxford University Press

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• This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

  Francis Schaeffer

  People, Chance, Modern

  Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub

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• Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

  Seth Klarman

  Investment Success, Mathematical Equations, Computer

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• What we said publicly is that we know that Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons, he's used them; we know about his biological weapons programs; and in the nuclear equation, left to his own devices, with no fissile material, by the end of the decade, he'll have a nuclear weapon. But if fissile material is provided to Saddam Hussein, he'll have a nuclear weapon within a year, so I'd say the year is the outside timetable.

  Richard Armitage

  Years, Iraq, Nuclear

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• Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.

  Deb Caletti

  Caring, People, Important

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• The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more specifically you harvest- the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times don’t drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less like a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).

  Gregory Maguire

  Games, Live Your Life, Secret

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• Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.

  Susan Cain

  Drama, Reality, Self

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

  Mark Steyn

  History, Half, Morbid

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• I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

  John Forbes Nash

  Love, Life, Discovery

  "Fictional character: John Forbes Nash". "A Beautiful Mind", 2001.

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• Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Romantic, Girlfriend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.144, Penguin

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• All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American kids going to bed with no math at all.

  Michael Cunningham

  Children, Kids, Math

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• Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation:
  youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

  John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

  Success, Society, Youth

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• When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

  Danica McKellar

  Math, College, Class

  "Danica McKellar Promotes New Math Book By Posing in Lingerie for 'Maxim'" by JJ Duncan, www.zimbio.com. May 12, 2010.

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• Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Teaching, Peers, Computer

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• I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some films that were given big releases. And I'm not really sure that happens in quite the same way, small films getting big releases. Maybe it still does, I don't know.

  Whit Stillman

  Doe, Enthusiasm, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Important, Stories

  "Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor lead London walk of compassion for refugees" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Science, Theory, Maxwell

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• What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the least contest this, but he only said, 'Oh, how ugly.' As soon as an equation seemed to him to be ugly, he really rather lost interest in it and could not understand why somebody else was willing to spend much time on it. He was quite convinced that beauty was a guiding principle in the search for important results in theoretical physics.

  Hermann Bondi

  Science, Guiding Principles, Theoretical Physics

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• To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.

  Janet Coleman

  Funny, Hate, Errors

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• Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Choices, Sides

  Source: collider.com

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• What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones. I rest upon my assertion that there has to be some balance of energy, or, failing a balance, a focused intensity of ALL energy. I've experienced both, I suppose.

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Balance, Energy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

  Averroes

  Positive, Fear, Hate

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• ...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly.

  Freeman Dyson

  Real, Dust, Clouds

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