Zitat des Tages über Subtrahieren / Subtract:
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really hard to avoid them, because they don't help me become a better writer. They subtract hours from my day. And a writer's main currency is time. Time to daydream, time to walk and think, time to sit and do the work.
And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.