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«Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.»
«Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.»
«The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.»
Author: Henry Ford
| Keywords:
calculate, calculating, chances, estimate, estimates, estimating, involved, plans, risks, size, size up, with confidence
«What place does the possibility of a second front occupy in the Soviet estimates of the current situation? A most important place; one might say a place a first-rate importance»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
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estimates, first rate, occupy, soviet, The Current
«The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Intelligence
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estimates, estimating, intelligence, method, ruler, The Men
«I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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brought, conceive, conceives, conceiving, estimates, estimating, false, mankind, miseries, The Great, value
«CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance --against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance. Cerberus is known to have had three heads, and some of the poets have credited him with as many as a hundred. Professor Graybill, whose clerky erudition and profound knowledge of Greek give his opinion great weight, has averaged all the estimates, and makes the number twenty-seven --a judgment that would be entirely conclusive is Professor Graybill had known (a) something about dogs, and (b) something about arithmetic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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arithmetic, carry off, Cerberus, conclusive, credited, entrance, entrances, Entrance to, entrancing, erudition, estimates, Greek, Hades, off guard, professor, Seven hundred twenty, sooner or later, The Entrance, the Poets, twenty-seven
«A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Ambition
| Keywords:
aspiration, aspires, compares, estimates, estimating, lower, produces, vulgar
«If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Pain
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be due, distressed, due, dues, due to, estimate, estimates, estimating, external, not due, revoke, revoked, The Thing, thing in itself
«No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.»
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