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«If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.»
Author: A. A. Milne (Humorist) | About: Cute, Friendship, Life, Living, Love | Keywords: a hundred, hundred, Hundred Days, I Want to Live, minus, minuses, one day, So I
«A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk.»
Author: Harry F. Banks | About: Enthusiasm | Keywords: clerk, clerking, enthusiasm, Just a, minus, minuses, salesman, salesmen
«In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing»
Author: Mignon McLaughlin (Author, Journalist) | About: Love | Keywords: All For Love, All for One, All in one, arithmetic, Be Love, equaled, equaling, equals, Everything, for each one, In the, love, minus, minuses, nothing, nothings, one, one after another, One and one, One on One, one to one, out of nothing, plus, pluses, The, The Loved One, The One and Only, The Other Two, two, twos, two way
«Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.»
Author: Philip Pullman | About: God, Inspiration, Mathematics, Religion, Science, Thinking | Keywords: Adam, Adam and Eve, calculate, equation, Eve, imaginary number, imagined, include, minus, square, square root
«Happiness equals reality minus expectations»
Author: Tom Magliozzi | Keywords: equaled, equaling, equals, expectations, happiness, minus, minuses, reality
«If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.»
Author: Emma Goldman | About: Love | Keywords: fails, give and take, minus, minuses, plus, restriction, restrictions, stress, transaction, transactions
«Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (Writer) | About: Advertising | Keywords: admitting, brokerage, constructive, contribution, minus, movies, racket, rackets, zero
«If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.»
Author: John Stuart Mill (Economist, Logician, Philosopher) | About: Mankind | Keywords: justified, minus, one-person, silencing
«GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust --to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: added, anarchists, antique, antiques, beer bottle, boots, bottles, cans, catalogued, catalogues, comprise, comprises, comprising, doubtless, formations, garbage, garrulous, geological, geology, globe, intoxicated, miner, miners, minus, mired, mole, moles, mouldy, mules, noted, patent, patented, pipes, railway, railways, snakes, snap, snaps, Spanish, Tertiary, The Globe, The Mole, The Mule, The Nose, tomato, tomatoes, tracks, worms
«If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind»
Author: John Stuart Mill (Economist, Logician, Philosopher) | About: Mankind, Opinions | Keywords: justified, minus, silencing
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