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The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education. Jodi Rell

Education, Best, College, Year, Teach

After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers. Lloyd Alexander

School, Thought, High School, Hood, Boy

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. Leon Battista Alberti

Beauty, Change, Harmony, Without, Cannot

I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really hard to avoid them, because they don't help me become a better writer. They subtract hours from my day. And a writer's main currency is time. Time to daydream, time to walk and think, time to sit and do the work. Nick Petrie

Work, Love, Beautiful, Time, Walk, Day

When you look at America and its diversity, it's not a coincidence it's the best country on earth. Subtract that diversity, and it wouldn't be the greatest nation. Byron Allen

Best, Diversity, Look, America, You

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. Petrarch

Short, Riches, Cut, Our, Desires

When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.' Mark Wahlberg

College, School, Said, Never, Need, Go

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. Ian Fleming

Together, People, Two People, Two, Most

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract. Amitava Kumar

Character, Writing, Start, You, Shape

As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction. Howard Rheingold

Day, Value, Learn, You, Narcissism, How

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct. Fran Lebowitz

Future, Child, You, Teach, Serious, Him

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow. Caroline Knapp

Simple, Cake, Feelings, Well-Being, Big

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. Joyce Carol Oates

Work, Time, Past, Doing, Writer, Erase

America loses so much of what defines it if you subtract the Chinese influence. I know this because I spent 12 years living in one of America's most popular tourist destinations: San Francisco. And it would not be one of America's top tourist destinations without Chinatown. W. Kamau Bell

Influence, America, Living, Know, You

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left. Huston Smith

You, Christianity, Left, Smith

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock. Robert Grosseteste

Money, Kitchen, Corn, Wages, Wardrobe

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract. Urs Fischer

You, Way, Sculpture, Build, Surface, Out

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