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«Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.»
«Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.»
«The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.»
«The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.»
«I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.»
«A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.»
«If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.»
«While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best»