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  • "She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

    Time   Queens   Eye  
    Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice In Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hunting of the Snark and Alice Underground”, p.144, Enhanced Media Publishing
  • Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

    Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.88, Random House
  • I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

    Numbers   Trying   Done  
  • we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

  • "Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

    Dog   Queens   Science  
    Lewis Carroll (2015). “Through the Looking-Glass (Alice): Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.87, 谷月社
  • Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.

  • The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.

    Soul   Doe   Subtraction  
  • Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

    Math   Knives   Division  
    Lewis Carroll (1875). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.189
  • My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully get it, but it is basically erasing shapes from a background of paint.

    Use   Shapes   Painting  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

    Reality   Islands   Air  
  • In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.

  • I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

  • God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

    Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books
  • It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

    Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that.

    Country   Song   Time  
    Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
  • The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

    Agency   Erosion   Views  
    Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.38, Cambridge University Press
  • The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials.

    "Less really is more" by Luke Jennings, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.
  • Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

    Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”
  • A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.

    John Allen Paulos (2013). “Beyond Numeracy”, p.23, Vintage
  • But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.130, University of Virginia Press
  • "She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

    Queens   Science   Knives  
    Lewis Carroll (1929). “Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass and Other Comic Pieces”
  • Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

    Want   Way   Subtraction  
  • Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.

    Writing   Way   Talent  
    "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.
  • I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

    Money   Men   Two  
  • Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction Ella said

    Zero   Six   Subtraction  
  • If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obligations. The figures are very simple, you do not need to be an expert. It is enough to know how to do a subtraction. China will grow very quickly, India also, and even Saudi Arabia projections of the 3 Mb/day will not be enough to meet the rise of Chinese demand.

    Simple   Iraq   Chinese  
  • There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

    Mother   Heart   Division  
    Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.82, U of Nebraska Press
  • If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.

    Fun   Men   Race  
  • Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

  • Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

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