Minus Quotes
146 quotes by 130 authors
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Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.
— Wolfgang Ostwald
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I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of…
— John Updike
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
— Agnes Repplier
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There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus…
— Arthur Eddington
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The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.
— Calvin Trillin
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Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in…
— Charles Thom
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The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it.…
— Fred Singer
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One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time…
— Galen Rowell
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
— Roland Barthes
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Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling…
— Harriet Quimby
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Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
— Chevy Chase
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Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason
— Mason Cooley
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Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis
— Robert Holden
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The definition of disappointment in life is expectations minus reality equals disappointment. The only two solutions you have to get over disappointment is to either…
— Randy Carlson
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In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As…
— Chris Hadfield
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A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money,
— Robert Crandall
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We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness…
— Arthur Balfour
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Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.
— Henry Ford
Who Wrote These Minus Quotes
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