#sum total

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

— Konrad Adenauer

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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

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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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Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain. ↗

— George Saunders

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