#sum

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. ↗

#assume #children #come #conception #grinding

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. ↗

#assume #children #feel #old #responsibilities

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 an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#dead #end #handsome #i #know

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 can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#being #both #charge #choices #choosing

The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#affected #business #confidence #consumer #consumer confidence

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#consumption #entire #form #gigantic #included

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#consumers #doing #law #legal #prevent

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#assume #democracy #form #frankly #good

When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#focus #responds #you

The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy. ↗