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The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

~Alexander Haig

Topics: Ambiguity Calculated Clearly Message Russians Sent Understood Warning Would

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

~Andre Malraux

Topics: Ability Act Bet Better Between Calculated Calculated Risk Courage Difference Failure Ideas Often Person Risk Successful Successful Person Take

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I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.

~Andrea Navedo

Topics: About Calculated Everything Lot Stop Think Very Ways

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When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Bent Bloody Calculated Character Characters Clever Comics Creation Dark Days Explosive Feminist First Her Innocent Instinctual Liberated Made Mary Men Punishing Rather Response She Started Than Type Woman Women Writing

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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Appear Appearance Artificial Background Book Calculated Character Details Early Ever Family History Lifts Long More Much Notes Novel Stage Than Think Will Write I Think

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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Anniversary Calculated Calculating Changing Dates Easter Event Festival Fixing Hero Historical History Impossible Indeed Inevitable Man Moon Myth Natural Point Positions Relative Solar Sun The History Of Very Way Year

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Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.

~Bill Blass

Topics: Add Attempt Calculated Each Each Individual Individual Piece Wardrobe Women

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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Between Calculated Calculated Risk Decision-Making Dividing Lies Line Loss Profit Reckless Risk

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My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

~Charles Tupper

Topics: Arena Been Calculated Country Desire Getting Great Important Issues Kind Parties Political Political Arena Political Issues Prevent Question Remove Separate Two Us Verdict

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I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.

~Chris Benz

Topics: Always Begin Calculated Inspirational Like Looks Politics Power Pretty Terms Think Very Woman I Think

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