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"arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." »Mickey Mouse
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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." »Eric Hoffer
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"arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer." »Carl Sandburg
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"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability." »Vannevar Bush
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"Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division." »Jan Ehrenwald.
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"arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time." »Carl Sandburg
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"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." »Mignon McLaughlin
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