Defining Empty Sums

Famous quotes containing the words defining, empty and/or sums:

“The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

“How empty is theory in the presence of fact!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.”
—Jewish proverb, quoted in Claud Cockburn, Cockburn Sums Up, epigraph (1981)