#sum total

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. ↗

— Claiborne Pell

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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#avoided #been #could #sum #sum total

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group. ↗

— James Cameron

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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material. ↗

— Mike Figgis

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The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

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Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

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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 complex and more interesting than what is obvious. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#calculations #complex #experience #interesting #just

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of. ↗

— Gary Lucas

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