Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but dont be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but dont be a demagogue. Dont hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Dont hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Dont expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Dont hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.
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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.
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You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
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I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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