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I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: About Arithmetic Better Did Done Figures Foolish Learn Like Quite Rather Saying Sums Than Thinking Tried I Tried

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Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject.

~Adam Rodriguez

Topics: Algebra Arithmetic Bit Checked Down English Favorite Get Got Gotten How Important Just Life Little Little Bit Lot Math More Off Older Once Out Real Real Life Relates Relation Subject Think Turned Why I Think

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I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Anybody Arithmetic Ceiling Debt Debt Ceiling Issue Makes Me Need No Sense Remotely Sense Tell Think Whatsoever Where Who Whole You I Think

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Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Absolute Added Arithmetic Even Flowers Geometry Grew Inside Like Maybe Obedience Only Perfect Plane Rock Spread Stones Understood

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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

Topics: Arithmetic Basic Changes Curve Economic Effect Effects Idea Illustrate Rates Revenues Tax Tax Rates Two

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Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Arithmetic Boxes Chess Child Classical Composition Cut Digital Get Little Music Musicians Orchestral Perhaps Possibilities Reason Roles Say Should Terms Up Worlds You

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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

Topics: Arithmetic Distinguishing Factors Important Known Latter Most Numbers Prime Problem Resolving The Most Important Useful

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God does arithmetic.

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

Topics: Arithmetic Does God

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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

Topics: Again Answer Arithmetic Blue Everything How Look Nice Out Over Right See Sky Start Time Try Where Window Wrong You

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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Arithmetic Geometry Light Music Optics Sounds

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