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You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.
Erin Morgenstern

Good, Experience, Simple

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.
Erin Morgenstern

Good, Experience, Moment

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.
Jane Siberry

Happy, Greater, Harmony

Success is the sum of details.
Harvey S. Firestone

Success, Details

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

Life, Freedom, Yourself

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
Brent Scowcroft

Best, Him, Since

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
Charles Kennedy

Freedom, Simple, Justice

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

Important, Together, Group

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.
Brit Marling

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.
Rudolf Arnheim

May, Found, Deal

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Arthur Wellesley

Religion, Prayer, Lord

Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
Abbas Kiarostami

Tell, Film, Story

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.
Carrie Brownstein

After, Cannot, Sure

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.
Carrie Brownstein

Music, Become, Weather

To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William Kingdon Clifford

Wrong, Anyone, Evidence

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.
Charlie Hunter

Individual, Create, Line

But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.
Valerie Jarrett

Country, Moment, Word

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
Joseph Butler

Happiness, Nature, Respect

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Time, Involved, Agenda

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
Felix Adler

Measure, Enjoyments, Expended

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.
Hope Davis

Good, Character, Person

The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't.
Stephen Hunter

Stupid, Tomorrow, Made

To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later.
Joseph Rotblat

Show, Dangerous, Later

Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.
Matthew Simpson

Men, History, Past

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
Jacques Ellul

Women, Men, Live

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.
Robert Vaughn

Life, Time, Saying

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
John Galsworthy

Nothing, Done, Else

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
Walter Jon Williams

Find, Result, Whose

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
Eduard Shevardnadze

Friends, Found, Policy

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
Richard Eyre

History, Humanity, Feelings

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