Top 100 Summed Up Quotes

#1. The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EMERGE. These are the tensions of conversion and spiritual awakening.

Sue Monk Kidd

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#2. I've always summed up my definition of fashion as the way that people present themselves on the public stage.

Robin Givhan

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#3. Jake Sullivan: FDR can go to hell. I'm a man. Not a type, not a number, and sure as hell not something that can be summed up as a logo to wear on my sleeve. A man. And I ain't registering nothing.

Larry Correia

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#4. One of the most useful pieces of advice we've learned in our journalism careers is summed up in the phrase "beware the fallacy of evil men.

Bill Kovach

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#5. Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.

Emile Galle

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#6. The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them.

Marci Shimoff

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#7. Sade pretty much summed up life in seven words: 'It's only love that gets you through.

Gregor Collins

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#8. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan

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#9. What, exactly, did Sjahrir do for the Republic? ... His entire underground effort can be summed up by saying that he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio.

Sukarno

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#10. Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#11. I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

Marco Beltrami

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#12. We sang in church "Tata Nzolo"! Which means Father in Heaven or Father of Fish Bait depending on just how you sing it, and that pretty well summed up my quandry.

Barbara Kingsolver

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#13. The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as "Things just happen. What the hell".

Terry Pratchett

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#14. or maybe love is summed up in moments - that day in the park, the time you had chinese food by candlelight, when the boy you liked left a message, finally, on your machine. maybe the telling of those moments is even better than the moments themselves.

Emily Franklin

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#15. Well, in the end, there was no helping this. Sometimes you just had to adopt the attitude summed up by, Too bad.

Iain M. Banks

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#16. I do believe that the single most important thing I could ever share with you with regard to maximizing the health, harmony, and happiness in your life can be summed up in just two words:
Love yourself.

Mike Dooley

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#17. Our fellow Negro citizens could be summed up in something Tessie said after watching Sidney Poitier's performance in To Sir with Love, which opened a month before the riots. She said, You see, they can speak perfectly normal if they want.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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#18. My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.

CeeLo Green

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#19. Who can say whether we shall ever see them again?' said Morriel with tearful eyes. 'Darling' replied Valentine, 'has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? - Wait and hope (Fac et spera)

Alexandre Dumas

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#20. The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

James Farley

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#21. Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are ...

Swami Vivekananda

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#22. All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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#23. In those few words you've summed up my life - my reason for existence. It's you. Any pain I've suffered, the mistakes I've made, the path laid out for me have all led here - to you.

Tima Maria Lacoba

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#24. all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, - 'Wait and hope.' - Your

Alexandre Dumas

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#25. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word
Man

George Orwell

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#26. I'm suddenly worried people will think that I believe their religion can be summed up on four sex-obsessed sentences.

Ryan North

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#27. Churchill, too, offered Roosevelt a name for the war; it summed up in three words the entire legacy of the appeasers and isolationists: The Unnecessary War.

William Manchester

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#28. The question was summed up for him thus: "If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my life, what answers do I accept?

Leo Tolstoy

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#29. Joe DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career can not be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country.

Ted Williams

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#30. A writer friend who was born in England summed up her feelings for the semicolon in a remark worthy of Henry James: "There is no pleasure so acute as that of a well-placed semicolon." I guess the opposite of that is that there is no displeasure so obtuse as that of an ill-placed semicolon.

Mary Norris

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#31. His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools
the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans
and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.

Terry Pratchett

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#32. summed up together to produce the OFDM signal.

Mathuranathan Viswanathan

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#33. Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.

Barbara Jordan

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#34. The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

Douglas MacArthur

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#35. The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

Bert Holldobler

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#36. My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

Will Cuppy

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#37. You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.

Andrew Schneider

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#38. Everything can be summed up into an equation.

Alexei Maxim Russell

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#39. In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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#40. The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

Jack Kornfield

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#41. 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.

Winston S. Churchill

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#42. Oscar Wilde summed up the indignation: A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Leslie Jamison

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#43. But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

George Saintsbury

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#44. A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.

Hal Borland

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#45. The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Karl Marx

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#46. And that, she thought as he left her, summed up the miracle of her life. She had a home with him, and he'd be there.

J.D. Robb

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#47. The real story of Detroit [ ... ] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

Peter Schiff

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#48. Thirty years later, Bruno was convinced that, taken in context, the episode could be summed up in one sentence: Caroline Yessayan's miniskirt was to blame for everything.

Michel Houellebecq

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#49. Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had forbidden, to know what God had not revealed, and to be what God had not intended for him to be

Henry Clarence Thiessen

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#50. All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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#51. There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

Mao Zedong

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#52. The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority

Janet Yellen

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#53. The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

Peter Brook

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#54. The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.

Carl F. H. Henry

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#55. When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Michel De Montaigne

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#56. My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.

Benjamin De Casseres

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#57. I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.

Trent Reznor

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#58. The difference can be summed up in one word: authorization. I don't need authorization to get in. It's the word that instantly transforms me from the World's Most Wanted Hacker to one of the Most Wanted Security Experts in the world. Just like magic.

Kevin D. Mitnick

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#59. The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.

Vladimir Lenin

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#60. Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of.

Kid Rock

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#61. The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

Charles A. Reich

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#62. The revolution in cancer research can be summed up in a single sentence: cancer is, in essence, a genetic disease. - Bert Vogelstein

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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#63. The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

George Washington

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#64. I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when we're feeling lonely in life, we attack those who actually do love us. It's one of the things that characterizes human nature and can be summed up in one word: FLAWED.

Jonathan Ames

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#65. All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Alexandre Dumas

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#66. Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

Bear Grylls

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#67. Flora hadn't signed my yearbook. When I got it back from the cheerleaders, I skimmed over the last few pages and saw that every one of them signed except for her. I was disappointed but I wasn't surprised.

We were too much of everything to be summed up in a few sentences. -Sean Foster

Rainbowbrook

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#68. Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar." How far from the truth!

George Ohsawa

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#69. Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

Noel Gallagher

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#70. Syra had to bite back a laugh at the bird's nest comment and opted for a more characteristic gesture that summed up her thoughts on his opinion of her hair with one finger.

Alex Morgan

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#71. My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

Grete Waitz

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#72. Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

Maria Montessori

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#73. It was the Unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling. He stamped his right fore-hoof on the ground and then cried: "I have come home at last! This is my real country!

Anonymous

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#74. Now let me make it clear that I believe there can only be one defense policy for the United States and that is summed up in the word 'first.' I do not mean first, but. I do not mean first, when. I do not mean first, if. I mean first -period.

John F. Kennedy

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#75. The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Paul Valery

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#76. Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

Joseph Addison

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#77. And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave As never yet the King of Glory wore, Alas! I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold With wreaths of fame and interest.

Andrew Marvell

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#78. If the women's movement can be summed up in a single phrase, it is 'the right to choose'.

Beatrice Faust

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#79. For Liesel Meminger, the early stages of 1942 could be summed up like this:
She became thirteen years of age. Her chest was still flat. She had not yet bled. The young man from her basement was now in her bed.
***Q&A***
How did Max Vandenburg end up in liesel's bed? He fell.

Markus Zusak

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#80. Individuals reacted in any number of ways to extreme stress and, relatedly, to impending death.

A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in a manner which could be summed up by, 'Screw it, I'm going out in style!

G.S. Jennsen

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#81. Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line

Priyansh Shah

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#82. It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

James Lipton

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#83. The ministries of the Church are regarded by the masses merely as dignities, her offices as posts of emolument - in short, popular religion may be summed up as respect for ecclesiastics.

Christopher Hitchens

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#84. The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence:
Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

Bo Lozoff

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#85. It all happened," Lipton summed up, "because Shifty saw a tree almost a mile away that hadn't been there the day before.

Stephen E. Ambrose

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#86. Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love ... receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

Martin Luther

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#87. the mission and purpose of the church was summed up into three words that I believe are the crux of our faith: Christ, cause, and community.

Jarrid Wilson

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#88. My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

Peter Cundall

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#89. Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one's fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in two short words: bust ass.

Jacques Pepin

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#90. The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

Barack Obama

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#91. I just realized that the key to advertising can be summed up in one word: Bullshit.

Whitney Gracia Williams

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#92. It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

Frank Muir

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#93. Aikido can be summed up like this: True victory is self-victory; let that day arrive quickly! (True victory) means unflinching courage; (self-victory) symbolizes unflagging effort; and (let that day arrive quickly) represents the glorious moment of triumph in the here and now.

Morihei Ueshiba

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#94. The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.

Amy Dacyczyn

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#95. Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

John Lanchester

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#96. All these guiding principles in therapy confront the doctor with important ethical duties which can be summed up in the single rule: be the man through whom you wish to influence others.

C. G. Jung

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#97. I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

Vladimir Lenin

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#98. Mindfulness can be summed up in seven words:
Deliberate Focused Attention In The Present Moment.
- Denis J

Denis John George

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#99. ALL THE WORKS OF MEN ARE SUMMED UP IN THEIR GRAVES

QHUBEKANI NCUBE

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#100. To exploit is to take undue advantage of someone else's need, whether that be unfair wages paid or unfair prices charged. I have just summed up the current state of modern capitalism in one sentence.

Robert Peate

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