Sum Quotes

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The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied: Cease to do… — Arthur E. Powell
The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all… — Charles E. Fuller
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no… — Ovid
In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more… — Bob Hawke
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a… — Barack Obama
The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total… — Mahatma Gandhi
Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I worked around cattle all my life and I guess I learned all there is to know about it, and I think I can sum… — Sam Brenner
The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy… — Twyla Tharp
I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is… — Maynard James Keenan
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient… — Matt Ridley
The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas. — Ludwig von Mises
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to… — Pope John Paul II
Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It is… — Neale Donald Walsch
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language. — Ezra Pound
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power… — James Madison
When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels,… — Joseph de Maistre
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. — Oscar Wilde

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