Sum Quotes
823 quotes by 682 authors
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Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of…
— John A. Lejeune
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []…
— William Faulkner
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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more…
— Daniel Libeskind
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World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if…
— Ban Ki-moon
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If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them…
— Winthrop W. Aldrich
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We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults,…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people to change together,…
— Richard Bach
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Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the…
— Louis Nizer
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I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with…
— Bertrand Russell
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If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or…
— Maya Angelou
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If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new…
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Spirituality for me is the sum total of all the acts of my day.
— Ari L. Goldman
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Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system,…
— Thane Rosenbaum
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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came…
— Betsy Lerner
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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came…
— Betsy Lerner
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We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great…
— James A. Garfield
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National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.
— Herbert Hoover
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CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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