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take it takes one to know one modern proverbial saying, late 20th century, usually with pejorative implication.
take the goods the gods provide proverbial saying, late 17th century, meaning that one should accept and be grateful for unearned benefits; perhaps originally as a quotation from Dryden's Alexander's Feast (1697), ‘Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the goods the gods provide thee.’
An earlier classical Latin form is found in the work of the Roman comic dramatist Plautus (
c.250–184 bc), ‘you may keep what good the gods give’.
See also
take the bull by the horns,
take the fifth,
take time by the forelock,
give and take is fair play,
you can take a horse to water,
you pays your money and you takes your choice,
take care of the pence,
it takes two to tango.
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Risks and Wrongs.
Magazine article from: Yale Law Journal; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...investigates what Aquinas called "commutative justice"--the dimension...distinctively liberal theory of commutative justice. While he works squarely...and the economic analysis of law, he rejects the idea that...interpretive theories of commutative justice that embrace contract...
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New mathematical logic data have been reported by researchers at Palacky University.
Newspaper article from: Journal of Mathematics; 7/7/2009; 595 words
; ...involutions satisfying the contraposition law, so-called commutative basic algebras. The class (variety) C B A of commutative basic algebras was intensively studied...Archive for Mathematical Logic (Commutative basic algebras and non-associative...
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Rearranging terms of a harmonic-like series
Magazine article from: Mathematics and Computer Education; 4/1/2001; ; 511 words
; 1. INTRODUCTION The commutative law of addition is familiar to our...infinite number of terms, the commutative law might not be true. This is...illustrates the failure of the commutative law. Our series is 3. FINAL REMARKS...
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Mathematics in a Postmodern Age: A Christian Perspective
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Hamilton found that multiplication was not commutative in all number systems. The commutative law (that a b = b a) had previously been thought...matrices and vectors need not satisfy this law. This discovery further contributed to the...
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Good Faith and Profit Maximization.
Magazine article from: Review of Business; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
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commutative law
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
commutative law in mathematics, law holding that for...addition, for any two numbers a and b the commutative law is expressed as a + b = b + a. Multiplication of numbers is also commutative, i.e., a × b = b ×...
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commutative operation
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
commutative operation Any dyadic operation ◦ that satisfies the law x ◦ y = y ◦ x for all x and y in the domain of ◦. The law is known as the commutative law . The usual addition of integers is commutative but subtraction is not.
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ring
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...operations, such that addition makes R a commutative group and multiplication is associative and distributes over addition (see commutative law ; associative law ; distributive law ). A commutative ring is one in which the commutative...
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Field
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...elements in the field. 2.Commutative laws: a + b = b + a...x 1 = a. 5.Inverse laws: for every a there exists...1. 6.Distributive law: a(b + c) = ab...number b) obey all these laws. They obey closure because...are closed. They are commutative and associative because...with the ...
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group
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...satisfies the associative law ; i.e., a [symbol...the group also satisfies the commutative law for the operation, i...a, then it is called a commutative, or Abelian, group. The...numbers (see number ) form a commutative group both under addition...
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