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

— Joyce Carol Oates

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Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down. ↗

— Annette Funicello

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For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

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Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules. ↗

— Roald Hoffmann

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