“You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.”
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Maya Angelou 247
American author and poet 1928–2014Related quotes
Midnight's Children (1981)
Context: Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", everyone of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.
“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”
Lend Me Your Ears: Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (2010), 4th edition, edited by Antony Jay
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“He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.”
English Proverbs (1659)
“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”