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• If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.

  Rand Paul

  Weapons, Doe, Problem

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Sound, Oracles, These Days

  "The Dark River". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2007.

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• I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer's hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer's work is never really done online.

  Khoi Vinh

  Technology, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet.

  Susan Cain

  Voice, Design, Mind

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

  Charles Yu

  Nice, Simple, Suffering

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• Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

  Gordon Allport

  Thinking, Comforting, Intellectual

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• How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Anything Goes, Care, Economy

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I think there's an element to this business that writers especially are overlooked in many ways and this made everybody kind of look at us differently. I do think that an interesting thing happened during it, which was being on these picket lines and looking at the huge amount of executives coming and going that you realize don't really add much to the equation.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Thinking, Interesting, Elements

  Source: deadline.com

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• Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.

  E. O. Wilson

  Destiny, Men, Illness

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• Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as the passage from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. When you get a number turning out to be infinite which ought to be finite, you should admit that there is something wrong with your equations, and not hope that you can get a good theory just by doctoring up that number.

  Paul Dirac

  Ideas, Numbers, Orbit

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• There's a misconception about girls accusing people of sexual assault. There's this sense of, Well, she might be lying, she might be telling the truth, it's really a he-said, she-said. But it turns out if you study the cases, something like 97 percent of the cases are actually true. And you think about it common sense - wise: Why would a young girl or a woman bring this attention upon herself? It's nonsensical. It sets up a binary equation where, in fact, if a girl makes that accusation, she's usually not lying about it.

  Jon Shenk

  Girl, Wise, Lying

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Fascism is meaningless because it's so completely indefinable, so where does the 'anti' come into the equation?

  Penny Rimbaud

  Doe, Fascism, Indefinable

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit get their apples from? And how much oil is expended transporting such things out there? It's an equation.

  Margaret Atwood

  Oil, Apples, Vegetables

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the equation is that riskier borrowers pay higher interest rates. Ultimate safety - a strongbox full of currency - would avail the banker nothing. Maximum risk - a portfolio of loans to prospective bankrupts at usurious interest rates - would invite disaster. A good banker safely and profitably treads the middle ground.

  James Grant

  Running, Art, Safety

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• If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Looks, Speed, Newton

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe - we call these singularities - Einstein's equations fail. In fact, people have joked that's where God is dividing by zero.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Zero, People, Black

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family despite working full-time. That has to be part of the moral equation. And if we are able to frame things in that fashion, then I think we can be successful.

  Barack Obama

  Fashion, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• And if [Vladimir Putin] does fight ISIL alone, how does it work out for Russia to have sided with Assad, sided with Iran, sided with Hizballah, when they're trying to reach out to the rest of the Sunni world in the region? That's not a good equation for Russia.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Russia, Iran

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• The ultimate goal of physicists is to arrive at an equation that explains everything and could fit on a t-shirt. That may happen but the t-shirt would have to be 10-dimensional.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Goal, May, Fit

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• Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

  William Thurston

  Science, Numbers, Understanding

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• By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous.

  Amanda Ripley

  Smart, Car, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

  Carl Sandburg

  Mirrors, Sky, Numbers

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships.

  Michael Beckwith

  Judgment, Our Relationship, Disappear

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

  Albert Einstein

  Special, Fields, Theory

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.367, Running Press

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• If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed, I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination.

  Freeman Dyson

  Reality, Imagination, Would Be

  "Infinite in All Directions". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1988.

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