#approximate

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one. ↗

— John Tuley

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According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#america #approximately #billion #born #combined

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything. ↗

— Dave Barry

#approximately #billion #located #miles #oregon

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. ↗

— Dave Barry

#been #fan #gigantic #i #rolling

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#average #being #culture #does #exist

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

— Michael Cunningham

#every #i #novel #once #produce

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

#care #doing #going #got #graduates

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

#air pollution #approximately #emission #enforcing #go

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#exactly #hammer #handled #how #idea