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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

~Abu Bakar Bashir

Topics: About Arab Being Benefit Calculations Destroyed Gas Get Leaders Lebanon Make Making Making Money Money More Neighbours Next Oil Only Other Own Profits Right Them Turn Way Worry

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I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.

~Andre Braugher

Topics: Calculations Engineering Finish Library Lot Spent Student Time You Your

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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

Topics: Beings Calculations Constantly Could Die Easiest Email First Human Human Beings Mile Only Physical Quickly Read Run Screen Subconscious Tapping Tasks Urge Way Would You

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I never shot much when I was a kid, but on the spotting scope, understanding the ballistics and the calculations, I'm a ten.

~Brandon Webb

Topics: Calculations Kid Much Never Scope Shot Ten Understanding

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Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.

~Christopher Monckton

Topics: Calculations Head Standing Transfer I Can

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I think of the brain as a computational device: It has a bunch of little components that perform calculations on some small aspect of the problem, and another part of the brain has to stitch it all together, like a tapestry or a quilt.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Another Aspect Brain Bunch Calculations Components Device Like Little Part Perform Problem Quilt Small Some Tapestry Think Together I Think

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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: About Calculations Complex Experience Interesting Just Life More Obvious Participation Series Something Statistics Sum Sum Total Than Total

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There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Base Calculations Different Different Kinds Each Just Kinds Many Matters Own Radioactive Safe Side Simplify Waste Worst

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Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Although Calculations Difficult Dollar Economic Ignored Impossible Leaving Means Nature Numerous Often Out Provides Put Services Them Value

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No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Based Bought Calculations Candidates Choose Come Data Disposal How Just Living Looking Making Marketers Matter Never People Process Products Technologies Terms Thought Through Which

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