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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Mark Twain
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. -- Wendell Phillips
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
With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication? -- Veronica Roth
The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication. -- John C. Maxwell
Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table. -- James A. Garfield
Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock. -- Margaret Sanger
Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. -- Calvin Coolidge
The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table. -- Rodney "Gipsy" Smith
There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. -- Anton Chekhov
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families. -- Martin Luther
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
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
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
Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs. -- Joseph Pilates
Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that. -- Susan Orlean
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8. -- Andrew Lo
Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table. -- Katharine Lee Bates
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I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing. -- Thomas Jefferson
My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits. -- Amy Chua
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones. -- Robert M. Pirsig
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
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
Collaboration is multiplication. -- John C. Maxwell
Working together precedes winning together...collaboration is multiplication. -- John C. Maxwell
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. -- Herbert Spencer
Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table. -- David Hilbert
Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can do multiplication. -- Michael Grant
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. -- L. E. J. Brouwer
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior. -- Herbert Spencer
God in his infinite wisdom has deposited in everything the potential for growth and multiplication. -- Sunday Adelaja
I like multi-multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement. -- Rossana Condoleo
We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity. -- Loren Cunningham
Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. -- Julian Barnes
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. -- Emile M. Cioran
The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products. -- Thomas Malthus
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain. -- Charles Caleb Colton
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication. -- Bess Streeter Aldrich
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication? -- Julian Barnes
The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication. -- Henry Wriston
I love the piece of earth you are,because in all the planetary prairiesI do not have another star. You repeatthe multiplication of the universe. -- Pablo Neruda
A child of the new generation Refused to learn multiplication. He said 'Don't conclude That I'm stupid or rude; I am simply without motivation.' -- Joel Henry Hildebrand
No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose.multiplication of his children, He goes ahead to expatiate on his blessings to us -- Sunday Adelaja
I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables. -- William Alexander Percy
we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility. -- Margaret Deland
We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table. -- Henry Ford
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It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. -- Herbert Spencer
I strongly believe that success is directly proprotional to one's ability to be simple and comfortable. In fact, simplicity and comfort have a multiplication effect, thus increasing the chances of expedited and sustained success. -- Vishwas Chavan
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material. -- Hermann Joseph Muller

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