Sum Quotes
823 quotes by 674 authors
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Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.
— Terence
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I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.
— Criss Jami
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That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
— Ella Maillart
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You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form…
— Erin Morgenstern
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The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description,…
— John Stuart Mill
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So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same,…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed…
— Emperor Norton
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Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our…
— Mortimer Adler
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Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.
— Edmund Leach
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Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods -…
— Chuck D
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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world,…
— Joseph Butler
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You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you…
— Ben Affleck
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It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.
— Hope Davis
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I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words…
— Peter Ackroyd
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The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides If a triangle…
— Richard Digance
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But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.
— Robert Fulton
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That's really what the mall is all about: money. At the mall the rule is: Credito, ergo sum - I shop, therefore I am.
— Jessica Zafra
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"Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if…
— Lewis Carroll
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Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a…
— Lianne La Havas
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
— Walter Rudolf Hess
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