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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

War, Jealousy, Nothing

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman

Love, Stress, Give

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Nothing, Everything

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Business, Movies, Humanity

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
Stephen Hawking

Good, Alone, Powerful

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill

Power, Person, Opinion

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect, Vulgarity

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
E. M. Forster

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston

Reality, Goals, Equal

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag

Depression, Melancholy, Animation

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.
Rashida Jones

Gay, Star, Movie

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
Albert Brooks

Business, Someone, Else

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
Philip Pullman

Cannot, Manners, Numbers

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.
Galen Rowell

Real, Working, Fighting

Literature is the question minus the answer.
Roland Barthes

Question, Literature, Answer

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
Chevy Chase

Anyone, Run, Wants

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks.
Lou Thesz

Time, Yourself, Down

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