Sum Quotes
823 quotes by 682 authors
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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
— Aristotle
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or…
— J. G. Ballard
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What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.
— Julian Barnes
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human…
— Clara Barton
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Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and…
— Samuel Beckett
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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
— Konrad Adenauer
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I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's…
— Emily Blunt
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We are not the sum of our possessions.
— George H. W. Bush
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I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is…
— James Callaghan
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can,…
— John Carmack
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You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us,…
— Maya Angelou
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Life is a zero sum game.
— George Carlin
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There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating…
— Leon Panetta
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Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The…
— Emile Durkheim
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The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.
— Walter Russell
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To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
— Adolf Eichmann
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I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for…
— Honus Wagner
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