Multiplication Quotes

• Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Civilization, History

  "Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist".

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• The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Knives, Government Debt, Office

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.212

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• Working together precedes winning together...collaboration is multiplication.

  John C. Maxwell

  Winning, Working Together, Collaboration

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• The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mathematical Equations, Balance, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.73, 1st World Publishing

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• What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tables, Today, Tomorrow

  Wendell Phillips (1982). “Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom”

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• Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Tables, Revolutionary, Reactionaries

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.

  Loren Cunningham

  Diversity, Unity, Happens

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• I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

  James A. Garfield

  Tables, Vote

  Letter to H. Austin on February 04, 1874. "Garfield: A Biography". Book by Allan Peskin. Chapter 17, 1978.

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• Collaboration is multiplication.

  John C. Maxwell

  Teamwork, Collaboration

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• There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Baths, Groups, Mediocrity

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1955-1962”, Library of America

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• There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

  Anton Chekhov

  Science, Tables, Mathematics

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.3760, Delphi Classics

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• You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

  Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

  Children, Boys, Men

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• There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

  R. A. Torrey

  Character, Bible Reading, Mind

  R.A. Torrey (1997). “Difficulties In The Bible”, p.7, Whitaker House

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• Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Strong, Powerful, Hard Work

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Survival, Evolution

  'Principles of Biology' (1865) pt. 3, ch. 12, 164.

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• I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Accomplishment, Effort

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• Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Civilization, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.58, Rajpal & Sons

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• The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Profound, World

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• If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Enemy, Body

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• My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with a vital act, beginning and ending with the latter. I believe that there is never any alcoholic fermentation without their being simultaneously the organization, development, multiplication of the globules, or the pursued, continued life of globules which are already formed.

  Louis Pasteur

  Believe, Science, Organization

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• Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.

  George Henry Lewes

  Ignorance, Loss, Feelings

  "Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science". Book by George Henry Lewes, 1864.

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• Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and fit for magicall uses. You may ferment them with gold and silver, by keeping the stone and metal in fusion together for a day, & then project upon metalls. This is the multiplication of ye stone in vertue. To multiply it in weight ad to it of ye first Gold whether philosophic or vulgar.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Dark, Shining

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• Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

  Julian Barnes

  Subtraction

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.88, Random House

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• Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

  David Hilbert

  Levels, Tables, Computation

  "Hilbert - Courant". Book by Constance Reid, p. 104, 1984.

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• A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Creativity, School

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