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«Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.»
Author: A. Lou Vickery
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«I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
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boring, conforming, Everything or Nothing, exciting, suburb, sum, sum up, vast
«In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.»
«Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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«If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.»
«Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.»
«And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....I sum up by saying that since his being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself, [one] should build on what is his own, and not on what rests with others.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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«The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.»
«They are but beggars that can count their worth, but my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.»
«The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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History,
Justice,
World
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