We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.
It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.
While Eeyore frets. . . . . . and Piglet hesitates. . . and Rabbit calculates. . . and Owl pontificates. . . Pooh just is.
The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.
You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.