Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him - he finds you.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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