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Tag Name "Arithmetic" (105)

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Arithmetic has began to totter.
Gottlob Frege
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Arithmetic is the death of story.
Jincy Willett
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
Carl Sandburg
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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
Plato
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.
Bertrand Russell
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Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
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Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.
David Berlinski
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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.
Plato
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
Elbert Hubbard
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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
Adam Smith
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
Gottfried Leibniz
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A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.
Alain de Botton
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Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.
Amiri Baraka
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eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.
Hannah More
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I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.
Anne Lamott
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Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.
Helen Keller
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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
Aristotle
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God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!
Hermann Weyl
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No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
Benjamin Franklin
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I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really.
Ice Cube
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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
Bertrand Russell
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To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.
Jacques Hadamard
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If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.
Bill Gosper
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