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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

Life, Everything, Words

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Men, Government

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Future, Series

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Time, Wisdom

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle

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

Made, Lives, Choices

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship, Men, Business

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl Marx

Society, Stand, Within

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Thomas Carlyle

Isolation, Total

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead

Worth, Add, Accurate

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.
Lil Wayne

Awesome, Quit, Skater

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

Power, Patriotism, Suffering

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life, Picture, Painting

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul Sartre

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
Herman Melville

Hate, Heart, Down

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
P. J. O'Rourke

Education, Health, Positive

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin

Greatest, Artist, Ideas

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.
Bob Nelson

Her, Motivation, Result

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
Henry Miller

Human, Words, After

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Single, Writing, Thinking

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
Lucretius

Life, Living, Others

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
James Callaghan

Moving, Short, Moment

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

Success, Small, Efforts

The sum of all sums is eternity.
Lucretius

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

End, Long, Words

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Cesare Pavese

Long, Two, Find

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
James Monroe

Best, Government, Greatest

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

History, Total, Avoided

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.
Hugh Jackman

Family, Father, Parents

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold

Freedom, Fear, Human

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