"When I came home and showed my mother……" — Sam Levenson
"When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points."
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41 Quotes by Sam Levenson
Sam Levenson has 41 quotes on this site.
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You can't start at the top.
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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my…
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart.
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It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.
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Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.
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If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way.
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People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.
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If you want to kill time, try working it to death.
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How wise are thy commandments, Lord. Each of them applies to somebody I know.
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One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of…
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More Arithmetic Quotes
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one of 144 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your…
— Thomas Brooks
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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."
— T. Harv Eker
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As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the…
— Roger Bacon
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more…
— Bertrand Russell
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same…
— Bertrand Meyer
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is…
— Unknown Author
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it…
— Sofia Kovalevskaya
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