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

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Self, Subtraction, Meekness

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• Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Numbers, Mathematics, Natural

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• Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

  Julian Barnes

  Loss, Subtraction, Accumulation

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• Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Civilization, Want, Refinement

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• I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blessing, Simple, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which is memorization of spelling patterns. In doing so, they ensure that children will neither be able to read nor calculate.

  Greg Perry

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

  Henry Ford

  Principles, Tables, Matter

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

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Mother, Heart, Division

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.82, U of Nebraska Press

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• Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Self, Civilization

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• Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.

  Susan Orlean

  Google, Historical, Important

  "Google It" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 16, 2011.

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• A child of the new generation Refused to learn multiplication. He said 'Don't conclude That I'm stupid or rude; I am simply without motivation.'

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Children, Motivation, Stupid

  Joel Henry Hildebrand (1948). “The lowdown on higher education”

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• Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Maternity, Born

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.347, Gideon House Books

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• Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Ideas, Doctrine

  Indira Gandhi (1971). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of challenge, January 1966-August 1969”

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• 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.

  Margaret Deland

  Responsibility, Loss, Anxiety

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• To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and multiplication of bacilli, it is necessary to isolate the bacilli from the body, to grow them in pure culture until they are freed from every disease product of the animal organism, and, by introducing isolated bacilli into animals, to reproduce the same morbid condition that is known to follow from inoculation with spontaneously developed tuberculous material.

  Robert Koch

  Animal, Growth, Tuberculosis

  Robert Koch (1987). “Essays of Robert Koch”, Praeger Pub Text

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• But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some nature hindering species, and resisting it, but because of the lack of a nature suitable for the multiplication of species; for species is a natural thing, and therefore needs a natural medium; but in a vacuum nature does not exist.

  Roger Bacon

  Vacuums, Doe, Needs

  Roger Bacon (2016). “Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2”, p.485, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Opposites, Purpose, Done

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• A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Home, America, Exhibitions

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• The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.

  Cyprian

  Numbers, Mad, World

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• How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.

  Stephen Leacock

  Fall, Struggle, Math

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• The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.

  Jean Baudrillard

  America, Important, Demand

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.91, Verso

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• Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Animal, Men

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• The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Law, Body, Too Much

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.672, Thomas Hobbes

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• With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

  Herbert Spencer

  Moral, Restriction, Higher

  Herbert Spencer (1899). “The Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: Principles of biology”

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• It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

  Herbert Spencer

  Survival, External Forces, Function

  'Principles of Biology' (1865) pt. 3, ch. 12, 164.

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