#approximate

But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

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I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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If I may discuss the idea of explosion. The number of regulations issued in the last two years is approximately the same as the number issued in the last two years of the Bush administration. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

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So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. ↗

— Douglas Haig

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Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. ↗

— Max Bill

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If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work. ↗

— Verne Troyer

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We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index. ↗

— Charles Vest

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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. ↗

— John Tukey

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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. ↗

— John Tukey

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