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To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. — Rajneesh

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin

Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic. — P. J. O'Rourke

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic. — Bill Nye

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic. — Henry Spencer

The guns-for-everyone advocates hate that statistic, and dispute it, but as Bill Clinton likes to say, it's not opinion. It's arithmetic, honey. — Stephen King

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else. — Freya Stark

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic. — Benjamin Graham

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. — Eric Hoffer

When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points. — Sam Levenson

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic. Perlis 1982 — Alan J. Perlis

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. — Gottfried Leibniz

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic. — Aristotle.

You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. — David Levithan

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions. — Elbert Hubbard

In the euro area the fight for survival has become a battle between politicians and arithmetic. — Mervyn King

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. — Earl Wilson

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! — Comte De Lautreamont

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology. — Truman Capote

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. — Jean Cocteau

people have managed to marry without arithmetic — Geoffrey Chaucer

The arithmetic of love defied intuition: only when given away did it multiply. — Barbara Wright

Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? — Ayn Rand

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg

Preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry). — Alan Watts

It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I have no faith in political arithmetic. — Adam Smith

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you. — C.S. Lewis

You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic ... but we don't sound alike — Nas

Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. — Bertrand Russell

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer. — Andy Rooney

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. — Mignon McLaughlin

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche

If the Chemistry is not right, Arithmetic won't workout. — Ganesh V.

You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well, I brought arithmetic.' — Hillary Clinton

Arithmetic has began to totter. — Gottlob Frege

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red. — Paul Scherrer

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. — Joan Collins

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. — Conrad Black

It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do." — T. Harv Eker

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect. — Arthur Laffer

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy. — Joseph J. Ellis

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important. — Dorothea Dix

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. — Bill Gosper

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? — Sydney Smith

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all. — David Levithan

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic. — Mahatma Gandhi

If he drinks one hundred dollars a day--and he can--he's got one hundred days to drink. It's just an arithmetic operation, simple logic. — John O'Brien

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy. — Nicholas Of Cusa

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves. — Tom Robbins

Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz) — Ellen Klages

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. — John McCarthy

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know. — Susan George

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers — Marcus Du Sautoy

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. — Plato

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic. — Grace Hopper

Method is the arithmetic of success. — Josh Billings

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. — Benjamin Franklin

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. — David Berlinski

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available. — Alain De Botton

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. — John Ray

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top. — Bertrand Russell

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it! — Hermann Weyl

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it. — Mason Cooley

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Oliver Sacks

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people ... As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected. — Bertrand Russell

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them. — Plato

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic. — Erskine Bowles

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. — Ronald Fisher

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it. — Thomas Browne

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. — John Lubbock

God does arithmetic. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Boolean Arithmetic — Noam Nisan

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths. — Gottlob Frege

Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. — Ken Robinson

Did a swift burst of mental arithmetic, arrived at an answer he liked and — Douglas Adams

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. — Bertrand Meyer

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator — John Arlott

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations. — Adam Smith

As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much nearer being right than others. — C.S. Lewis

Arithmetic is the death of story. — Jincy Willett

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic. — Norman Ralph Augustine

Your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions). — Paul Dilascia

Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. — Hannah More

If war were arithmetic, then the mathematicians would rule the world. (Lord Petyr Baelish) — George R R Martin

I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most. — Fran Lebowitz