The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle
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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Oscar Wilde
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Sir Francis Bacon
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
Samuel Butler
The key advantages of the city should be built on. It could be financial capital, the talent pool or connectivity with other parts of the country and the world.
Michael Charlton
Back in those days, going to the moon, geology was important, ... But how do we train pilots to be geologists? We concentrated on observing, not the analytical parts of the rocks.
Jim Lovell
The parts of that market where we compete are both nine billion euros.
Henning Kagermann
I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
Patrick White
Once that is achieved, people who live in the region are able to gain a better understanding of how other parts of their region live and think.
Michael Kim
They know what needs to be done. We just need a better effort in all three parts of the game.
Pat Willis
I haven't been prouder of a group than this one. Each of them took on a huge burden today to come out and win this, and they did their parts and would have done more if I would have asked them.
Mike Olson
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
IBM Tucson is exceptionally interested in participating in many, many parts of the community, especially where we can focus on K-12 and higher education.
Terri Mitchell
Basically the meters were getting so old that they weren't selling any parts necessary for upgrading. We could have either kept replacing the old meters or order the new pay machines.
Robert Hendry
When you have teachers being beheaded and schools being closed in parts of the country, when you have suicide bombers killing Afghan civilians and Canadian diplomats, that is a very disturbing trend.
Richard Norland
These clinics really meet the needs of busy individuals. They have gained a lot of popularity in other parts of the country. The time has come to introduce this in Utah.
Phil White
There are attempts to convince the (Shiite) alliance to leave the issue of federalism in other parts of Iraq (apart from the Kurdish north) for the next parliament to deal with, and also to implement it gradually over two or three years, not now.
Mahmud Othman
As with any constitution, all the parts have to work. Having big parties isn't any good as long as you don't have independent bodies to provide a check on power.
Michael Montesano
This was a particularly strong quarter for eBay across all parts of its business.
Rajiv Dutta
It takes 10 to 12 parts of chlorine to take out one part of ammonia.
Gayle Sitzmann
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby
The private entrepreneur who is the heart of our system today will continue in the future. I don't think that's going to change. But there is obviously going to be a major change in a number of the parts of distribution.
John Devine
I saw what parts of my game need to improve by playing with Tom [Watson] and Michael [Campbell]. I made too many mistakes.
Brian Mcelhinney
They are able to point the camera around the various parts of their fairly cramped environment.
Bill Shorten
We have lots of options for other parts if we don't get a whole bird. There are a lot of people waiting.
Bernadette Atencio
There were mistakes in the score and parts in practically every category, including wrong tempo indications and inaccurate dynamics.
Gilbert Kaplan
We definitely have room for improvement on our overall play this season. We need to become more consistent in all parts of the game. Defense is something that we are struggling with.
Joyce Compton
People from New York and Hong Kong are often surprised that there's more circulation space in homes in London than they expect. Those from Eastern Europe or other parts of America, though, may find it difficult to adapt here.
Robert Bailey
This is a milestone contract for wind energy in New England. Our region has lagged behind other parts of the country in the use of wind energy.
Harley Lee
They are starting to come in from parts of Louisiana and Texas. These supplies couldn't have come at a better time. I'm really, really happy. This gesture is just so overwhelming -- it really is.
Annette Johnson
It was an absolutely great performance. She's basically playing on one leg out there. One of the unfortunate parts of losing the way we did was that we wasted that effort.
Chad Lavin
I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.
Dennis Miller
The M&A revival is truly a global phenomenon, and it's not just driven by the developed markets like the U.S.. In parts of Europe - Germany and Central and Eastern Europe - there are areas that are not so mature.
Peter Charlton
We can force them to cover the entire city, instead of cherry-picking the good parts. They often don't want to go into low-income areas.
John Bryan
I'm sure there are some people who have heartburn with some parts of it. But that's true of a lot of bills we vote on.
Sen. Brandon Bell
Passengers from that region will now have easier access to other parts of Africa.
Hugh Fraser
This is not a done deal, we are examining some parts of the order that may merit rehearing, ... We are encouraged by FERC's decision, but we are looking at some of the limitations in the order.
Charles Robinson
The healthcare business, on its own, would probably be worth in the mid-teens -- $14 to $16 a share depending on how much debt they put into the company. For the sum of the parts, I'd put the value at $36 to $38 a share.
Peter Sorrentino
As of late last night, we have been in all parts of the city, ... We have liberated the city of Falluja.
John Sattler
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles
A lot of times we set ourselves up to fail. It's interesting. A lot of times the resolutions we choose are the ones, like you said in the opening, we keep breaking over and over again. Sometimes it reflects parts of ourselves that we really need to accept instead of trying to change.
Cheryl Richardson
Over time the city's planning affects us a lot. The city is trying to make plans and so are we. There are a lot of moving parts.
Richard Spies
The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.
Dixie Lee Ray
The contract manufacturers, the component manufacturers, the guys that build the boards and the parts, followed their customers along to China.
Dharmo Soejanto
It's two parts looking for each other.
Juan Romero
This research suggests that we're understanding different parts of the brain in relation to decision-making and emotions.
Paul Sanberg
There are questions that are being asked not only in the U.S. but other parts of Asia and Europe about how China will use this growing power.
Robert Zoellick
Other than the salaries and parts, it's become our biggest expense. It passed rent a year or so ago.
Linda Austin
Housing prices are becoming a very significant factor in being able to attract people from other parts of the country.
Carol Schatz
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
David Hilbert
In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.
Mary Wilson Little
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca West
We don't believe there's a syndrome. We don't believe that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We don't believe that the formula is grounded in scientific evidence.
Richard Kahn
We are still experiencing spot shortages, which are more severe in some parts of the country than others.
Michael Fleming
There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud.
Gwyn Thomas
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
Jean jacques Rousseau
You'd almost have to be living under a rock to not have heard of this case, if you live in these parts.
Paul Morrison
My take on Max is that he's an outsider. Without him, certain parts of the mystery wouldn't get revealed. He's like Columbo. He's a mystery writer and he finds himself in a natural mystery that he has to figure out.
Brian Shea
We're fully aware that many Arab consumers remain skeptical about our products, so we plan to adjust certain parts of our marketing.
Finn Hansen
That's one of the hard parts of living in a smaller community. You see these people every day and your kids go to school with their kids and you go to church with them. It's just kind of tough.
Pete Kennedy
The first five minutes of the first half and the first five minutes of the second half are pretty important parts of the game. We did a good job of extending the lead in the second half.
Matt Siegle
It was a high-intensity explosion and its noise was heard in several parts of the city. It appears that the KFC was the target.
Mushtaq Shah
Any parts that are rebuilt, they all have to be brought up to category 5 [hurricane] protection. That will set the objective for decades.
Joseph Suhayda
You can't just put PC parts into a cell phone, following the trend of convergence, because mobility has some unique challenges.
Bob Iannucci
He's being well-treated and he's getting his regular medications . He said it's ... like some of the parts that he's played.
Harland Braun
I like to exhilarate the audience like Groucho Marx exhilarated me when I was a kid. Also, I enjoy doing the more serious parts of the show, like playing him as an older man, because when I was a kid he was an older man.
Frank Ferrante
You get to learn about different cultures-the different parts of the country. The diversity is different. The atmosphere is different. The people are different. You kind of have to change the way you think.
Chelsea Cowman
I'm not trying to hit homers, ... I'm trying to hit to all parts of the field, left-center to right-center.
Alex Rodriguez
There's a lot of moving parts to it. It's all part of an equation.
Chris Leonard
For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts. If the guy in the movie is 30, they're going to take a 20-year-old to play opposite him.
Joey Lauren Adams
Right now the whole does not equal the sum of the parts.
Paul Wellstone
Apple is very particular about its component parts.
Bob O'donnell
[People begged for water, he said. In some parts of the city,] if you had a $100 in one hand and bottled water in the other, people would kill for the water, ... People were frying in their own sweat.
Matt Davis
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in equal parts.
Judith Crist
But the thinking is that farming isn't going to require any fewer people than it does now. There's even some discussion that it may require more people because of the more high-tech parts of farming.
Leon Heath
Machine capability is critical when you're machining parts to tolerances in the tenths.
Bill Murphy
I didn't realize the possibilities. I got to see all parts of the country and made lasting friendships.
Jenn Natale
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Milan Kundera
We were outraged that no officials came ... when they carry responsibility for what happened. These body parts were also our children.
Susanna Dudiyeva
I get a better fit and quality with OEM parts. It makes my job easier.
Robert Mahoney
We were drifting kind of frozen in the ice for a week. There are some parts of the world where you really can't do everything you want. We're really not in charge.
Chris Linder
He was one of the greatest parts of the past in country music in this country that anybody will ever see.
Carroll Baker
This is just the beginning of the rainy season, and we expect more flooding in various parts of the country.
Farid Abdulkadir
We get up and we act out the different parts. I think that helps us learn the words a little bit easier.
Debra Williamson
He's the glue of our team. I've said that all along. Spare parts are very important, but he's the one cog we can't really miss. He'll make any contract look reasonable.
Mark Sweeney
There may be a few flows from some parts of Europe, but there are no major flows, and there's certainly no fresh news to trade, and there's been no surprises.
Niels Christensen
Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.
Ricardo Montalban
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
We will get there -- here and in other parts of the world _ more quickly than most people appreciate because the athletes are out there.
Paul Tagliabue
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
Stephen Baker
Moving from the headwaters in Colorado, the salt concentration changes from a few parts per million to thousands of parts per million.
Robert Bowman
That's been one of the most problematic parts for anyone who's in this alternative billing space.
Sucharita Mulpuru
Being a good member of the community has always been an important point for Advance Auto Parts. We look forward to being here for a long time.
Greg Mattes
Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.
Gene Shalit
I love being on the power play. I love standing in front of the net causing havoc in front of their goalie. That's one of my favorite parts of the game for sure.
Cara Hendry
If we get an east or northeast wind, it could really push some water into parts of the parish outside of the hurricane protection levees.
Mike Sanders
We only expected parts of the oil and gas reserves to go back to the hands of the Bolivian government, but not 100 percent.
Lucrecia Tam
We hit the ball well today. Everyone did their parts. We did everything right.
Chris Randall
I will favorably consider if there's a good opportunity to move some of these jobs to rural parts of the state that have been hard hit by economic transformation.
Mark Warner
We're going to start with the defensive end and let the other parts fall where they may. You can always give 100 percent on defense.
Phil Mishler
There were no computers retrieved, but there were indications of equipment taken out, there were computer parts.
Federico Opinion
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
Richard Stallman
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
Joseph Addison
Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.
Richard Epstein
We had some doubts early on as to whether we'd even make the playoffs. It's been an up-and-down season. People said we weren't going to make the playoffs. It's been a mental grind and frustrating at parts of the season, but we worked through it.
Ben Gordon
The oboe will take the role of a lead guitar at certain points, too. I play a little harmonica, so sometimes we'll do some back-and-forth parts with the oboe and harmonica. It's a lot of fun.
Jonathan Reuel
Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge.
Donna Douglas
It's going to be inconvenient, you have the eastern part of the city from here. With these hotels, you have three right here and a lot of people go to P & G and all parts East.
Jim Bryson
Why has it changed? I think it's like any other business. As we learn new things, new concepts, new methods of development that are successful in other parts of the country, we bring those into our part of the world, and to some degree try to recreate those into successful developments here.
Gary Halbrooks
Most parts of the country are still going to get deficient rain especially those areas which are most stressed.
William Nyakwada
In parts of the state, they think we are too pro-labor. That would be like accusing the business schools of being too pro-business.
Ruth Needleman
The problem in some cases is the abuse of weak democracies, the exploitation by leaders of those parts of the system which aren't really democratic or strong.
Robert Broadfoot
There was a lot of frustration on all our parts. And hopefully our government will take a look so no American city will have to go through this.
Carl Griffith
Right now, these parts are so incredibly inferior. Body shop managers will tell you which insurers are pushing aftermarket parts.
Dennis Howard
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Gene Fowler
The unity of the country, the forward progress of the country would be lost. There are elements of ethnic cleansing, getting a minority community out of an area so that the majority community can take over, in certain parts of Iraq.
Sir Jeremy Greenstock
There can be more moving parts to them. It does require that somebody keep up with it.
Douglas Gill
We've got some people up there who clearly feel they know what is best for our children and they are not very interested in hearing what we have to say. If they did that to us, look out in other parts of the county, because they are going to do it to you next.
Mark Connolly
I am excited about this great opportunity and look forward to joining the nation's leading auto parts retailer.
Bill Giles
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Colin Wilson
In some parts of the country, affordability has fallen to levels we have not seen in 20 years.
David Berson
Usually, some of the places we'd catch them were some of the roughest parts of town.
Jim Jenner
We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are.
David Baron
The easy parts have been done.
Brahma Chellaney
I think that there's been some acknowledgement that President Tilghman is hoping to make improvements in different parts of campus and we're working hard to try to find out what they will be.
Jon Hlafter
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
Uma Thurman
It's the most lethal cancer there is. The only good thing about it is that, if left untreated, death is relatively quick and pain-free, since this tumor does not form painful metastases in other parts of the body.
Gelsomina De Stasio
Two of the sectors we think will drive the market higher are the financial stocks, in particular investment banks and brokers, and certain parts of technology.
Jim Gribbell
We are finding that things that once appeared to be biologically independent are closely connected. We are not just collections of independent parts.
Peter K. Sorger
We are seeing some pretty heavy damage on certain parts of the lake, especially boats traveling at a higher speed.
Jeff Wolfe
In Brazil, we grow up with Carnival. People paint their private parts and go dancing in the street.
Dannielli Marcelino
Micron's products, customers and the solutions we enable have evolved to a point where changing parts of our organization will continue to increase our presence and competitiveness in the global marketplace.
Steve Appleton
Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe.
Jean Harlow
The best way to strengthen back muscles is in a static position, You maintain the position of the core while moving other parts of the body.
Verle Valentine
Church has been one of the most important parts of my life.
Dr. Steven Dunton
To learn that the city has exported 7,000 guns seized from street criminals to other parts of the country is really mind-boggling and the height of hypocrisy.
Rafael Goyeneche
It covers the highs and happiness for winning a war to very dramatic parts where mothers have lost their children.
Pedro Tomas
I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.
Norma Shearer
As friends and neighbors, we should be honest with each other about the rapidly degenerating situation along the border and the near-lawlessness in some parts. The bottom line is that we simply can't allow drug traffickers to place in jeopardy the lives of our citizens and the safety of our communities.
Antonio Garza
No one except us knows all the parts of the operation. In that way it's like a conspiracy.
Matt Sloan
But in a lot of parts of the country, buyers do have the ability now to put reasonable conditions on their offer.
Phil Soper
We created some chances today we should have buried, the opportunities were there. But it was the other parts of our game that cost us.
Greg Gilbert
I'd like to see what (the engineers') projections are on growth in other parts of town. Most of what we're seeing is on the southwest. I'd like to have a better distribution of what the growth is going to be.
Rex Garrett
Their (the fire department) 1978 tank truck has 200,000 miles on it and was originally built to carry oil. The 1958 34 ton pick-up has 70,000 miles on it and it is getting increasingly more difficult to find replacement parts.
Sarah Doscinski
Actually, it's quite cheap now compared to some of the other parts of the world.
Geoffrey Dennis
The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul Erlich
This figures is set to grow exponentially in the coming years, for 2007, we expect the total value of our parts business to be ten times the value of 2006.
Keiji Shimada
We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.
Tim Mcnulty
If the plants are chopped up by boats or other activity, they can grow into new plants in different parts of the lake.
Donna Sefton
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Benjamin Rush
We have seen glimpses of being a pretty decent team. But a lot of it is the sum of all parts. When they're together, we can be pretty good. When they're not, we get exposed.
Scott Sandelin
It's a parts program in a thinly disguised cloak.
Primo Goffi
It highlights the three most important parts of conservation — habitat, habitat and habitat.
David N. Leff
The parts of the metropolitan area are so interdependent, in so many ways, that nobody is being helped by keeping those divisions going.
Kevin Boyle
We have had some preliminary discussion about other parts of the world that we haven't played on this tour, but there's no firm decision.
Arthur Fogel
It's one of those things where the timing is never right. And there are a lot of people interested in the parts.
Peter Farrelly
There is a problem as many parts of the world don't like the fact that one country is linked to the organism that technically rules the internet, ... Many countries would like a multilateral approach.
Viviane Reding
We can't get new parts, so we try to take care of these.
Chuck Mcquaid
Since the money laundering statute and the conspiracy statute are both parts of the penal code, no reasons appear why conspiracy to money launder would not be an offense, and this court holds that it is, and was in 2002.
Judge Pat Priest
I think it's the camaraderie of being out there with like-minded people, ... And you have a chance to see parts of Hawai'i that most people don't get to see.
Mike Garcia
It was a hairy deal. It had four different moving parts, so you can imagine the concern. I think $26 became less attractive given the extra risks.
David Dietze
Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.
Ruth Nanda Anshen
[The metrics used by many high-tech analysts today] are not what analysts normally look at, ... there's so many metrics that we're dealing with in this era that differ from creating light bulbs or auto parts or something that's very tangible.
Louis Thompson
We've estimated that there's probably between $80,000 and $100,000 worth of parts in the car.
Simon Hauger
We talked about roles and everybody does something well and that's why they are on the floor and if it's not scoring believe me it's something else. All the parts to the puzzle are critical.
Dianne Lewis
The council gave us a lot of support. They said belief in God is central to Scouting, and if some parts of Scouting are against your religious beliefs you don't have to honor that.
Saffet Catovic
The movements we're trying to get out of the player with those different exercises are very calculated and work different parts of the body.
Ryan Hamlyn
At the track, we help each other with parts of the track that we're having trouble on. We can help each other get the timing down.
Ashley Decarlo
The big thing about the season is the festival. I'm excited because it's going to include many parts of the community, for example Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater.
Peter Boal
We see that some parts of the state are more difficult than others.
Jeff Black
It is absolutely scandalous what is happening. Why are these people pushed back in parts of the desert where they have nothing to eat, nothing to drink?
Louis Michel
I am delighted to see such strong interest from so many different parts of the world.
Lamine Diack
Even though it's easy to say, 'Give us a time line,' it's really not that easy with all the moving parts.
Joe Greeley
There are two distinct parts that make us different from every other car wash out there.
Geoff Baker
There are a lot of moving parts with annuities.
Linda Lanam
If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.
Helen Hunt
There were up to five inches of rain standing on parts of the field. The groundskeeper said it's never been under this much water.
Greg Brooks
You can tune the photovoltaic to capture parts of the spectrum that have not efficiently been captured before with traditional methods - the red and the infrared for example.
Conrad Burke
We know there are people in other parts of the county who are alive and could be rescued and have not been. We're trying to get to them. . . . It's happening every minute that we're finding somebody in the rubble or hanging out of a building and has been fighting [to live] for the last few days.
Joe Spraggins
Not all chicken prices are down. We export a lot of chicken parts, but we export very little white meat, that's where most of the prices have stayed down.
Brian Latham
You can have separate identities for the separate parts of your life. For example, you can have a health-care identity that you use to discuss your health care problems, and a separate identity that you use to apply for health insurance, which is your true identity. But now, those two identities are separated.
Austin Hill
They created an atmosphere where she is afraid for her physical safety. They demonized her in the community. They turned certain parts of this community against her that now hate her.
Fred O'neal
The book is a thriller. Parts of it are scary.
Linda White
There are a lot of moving parts here. It's not as simple as slapping together an extension of the current agreement.
David Miller
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