"Serious sport is war minus the shooting." — George Orwell

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• Happiness is equal to work minus resistance. — Wolfgang Ostwald
• I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak. — Shaquille O'Neal
• Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition… — John Updike
• A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense. — Agnes Repplier
• There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound… — Arthur Eddington
• The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent. — Calvin Trillin
• Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn… — Unknown Author
• The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only… — Fred Singer
• One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the… — Galen Rowell
• Literature is the question minus the answer. — Roland Barthes
• Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over… — Harriet Quimby
• Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default. — Chevy Chase

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