Minus times minus equals plus,
The reason for this we need not discuss.
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As stated in "The Poet Himself" by Paul Fussell, in The New York Times (4 October 1981), these lines were a "math mnemonic" which Auden "had to memorize as a child."Wystan Hugh Auden
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.
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Catholicism minus Christianity.
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