subtraction
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The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities.
The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.
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Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
No operation of addition or subtraction gives rise to diversity, but all are equally related to their pair of Terms, or Elements.
If one adds anything small or great to the queen of virtues, piety, or on the other hand takes something from it, in either case he will change and transform its nature. Addition will beget superstition and subtraction will beget impiety.
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.