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— Henry David Thoreau"He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics."
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In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'
— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza
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The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we're forced to make difficult choices about our parents, other loved ones, or even ourselves that ultimately boil down to calculations of worth and value.
— Sheena Iyengar
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