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• I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction. — Mae West
• God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction. — Meister Eckhart
• The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is… — Thomas Nagel
• Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires… — Jeremiah Burroughs
• According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by… — John Pawson
• Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want. — Umberto Eco
• He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating… — C.S. Lewis
• If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even… — Fatih Birol
• In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible,… — Paola Antonelli
• Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words. — Neal A. Maxwell
• The soul grows by subtraction, not addition. — Henry David Thoreau

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