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"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." »George S. Patton
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"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood." »Alexander Meigs Haig
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"I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence." »Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian"
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"We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness." »Maxwell Maltz
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"It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armour-proof against painful emotions; nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer." »Von Humboldt
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"Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one." »Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
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"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life." »Albert Camus
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