Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction Ella said
Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.
Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.
Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.
Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obligations. The figures are very simple, you do not need to be an expert. It is enough to know how to do a subtraction. China will grow very quickly, India also, and even Saudi Arabia projections of the 3 Mbday will not be enough to meet the rise of Chinese demand.
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
