When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures, however, believing that any sum they come up with is only a surface manifestation -- turned up by their inevitably limited policing -- of the real loot of the medical racketeer.

The names of foods are different as well, such as Manapua, from Hawaiian meaning " chewed up pork " for dim sum bao, though the meat is not necessarily pork.

During the course of his lifetime Sloane gathered an enviable collection of curiosities and, not wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to King George II, for the nation, for the princely sum of £ 20, 000.

The collects of the Breviary are largely drawn from the Gelasian and other Sacramentaries, and they are used to sum up the dominant idea of the festival in connection with which they happen to be used.

To sum things up, the use of money in trading all goods ( capital / labor and consumer ) in all markets ( spot and financial ) combined with profit driven entrepreneurship and Darwinian natural selection in financial markets all combine to make rational economic calculation and allocation the outcome of the capitalist process.

The electric charge of a macroscopic object is the sum of the electric charges of the particles that make it up.

The sum and whole cause of the writings of this epistle, is, to prove that a man is justified by faith only: which proposition whoso denieth, to him is not only this epistle and all that Paul writeth, but also the whole scripture, so locked up that he shall never understand it to his soul's health.

This accord, which has been repeatedly extended up to the present day, provides for the television companies to make available an annual sum to support the production of films which are suitable for both theatrical distribution and television presentation.

Sir Nicholas had laid up a considerable sum of money to purchase an estate for his youngest son, but he died before doing so, and Francis was left with only a fifth of that money.

For the sake of simplicity, we might assume that the weights are normalized so that they sum up to 1 ( which can be easily done by dividing each weight by their sum ), thus allowing some terms in the above formulae to be omitted:

In mid-1848, President Polk authorized his ambassador to Spain, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, to negotiate the purchase of Cuba and offer Spain up to $ 100 million, an astounding sum at the time for one territory, equal to $ in present day terms.

He wrote a consort piece with the punning title " Semper Dowland, semper dolens " ( always Dowland, always doleful ), which may be said to sum up much of his work.

Similarly, the opportunity cost of attending university is the lost wages a student could have earned in the workforce, rather than the cost of tuition, books, and other requisite items ( whose sum makes up the total cost of attendance ).

This is because any simple n-gon can be considered to be made up of triangles, each of which has an angle sum of π radians or 180 degrees.

Like all triangular numbers, it is the sum of all natural numbers up to a certain point ; in this case: Furthermore, any even perfect number except the first one is the centered nonagonal number as well as the sum of the first odd cubes:

To sum up: Wittgenstein asserts that, if something is a language, it cannot be ( logically ) private ; and if something is private, it is not ( and cannot be ) a language.

When he was convinced that he might do so, he offered to give up the papacy into the hands of his godfather for a large sum of money.

For instance, Amr ibn al-As, after conquering Egypt, set up a census to measure the population for the jizya, and thus the total expected jizya revenue for the whole province, but organized the actual collection by partitioning the population into wealth classes, so that the rich paid more and the poor less jizya of that total sum.

In quantum computation, on the other hand, allowed operations are unitary matrices, which are effectively rotations ( they preserve that the sum of the squares add up to one, the Euclidean or L2 norm ).

where the's sum up to 1, and in the infinite dimensional case, we would take the closure of such states in the trace norm.

" The structure of a dissertation consists in an introduction that elucidates the basic definitions involved in the question as set, followed by an argument or thesis, a counter-argument or antithesis, and a resolving argument or synthesis that is not a compromise between the former but the production of a new argument, ending with a conclusion that does not sum up the points but opens onto a new problem.

the Yugoslav Claims Fund the sum of $17,000,000 being the amount paid by the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia pursuant to the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948 ; ;

Determine the ratio that the amount being allotted is to the sum of the products for all the States.

( Each State's unadjusted allotment for any fiscal year, which exceeds its minimum allotment described in item 13 below by a percentage greater than one and one-half times the percentage by which the sum being allotted exceeds $23,000,000, must be reduced by the amount of the excess.

Synthesis of new elements is accomplished by bombarding target atoms of heavy elements with ions, such that the sum of the atomic numbers of the target and ion elements equals the atomic number of the element being created.

An operational definition proposed in 2012 states " consciousness is the sum of the electrical discharges occurring throughout the nervous system of a being at any given instant ".

Corporatism refers to a form of collectivism that views the whole as being greater than the sum of its individual parts, and gives priority to group rights over individual rights.

The reflected light being the sum of the incoming light ( L < sub > i </ sub >) from all directions, multiplied by the surface reflection and incoming angle.

Baruch Spinoza in " Principia philosophiae cartesianae " at its Prolegomenon identified " cogito ergo sum " the " ego sum cogitans " ( I am a thinking being ) as the thinking substance with his ontological interpretation.

It can also be considered that Cogito ergo sum is needed before any living being can go further in life ".

Some ecological principles, however, do exhibit collective properties where the sum of the components explain the properties of the whole, such as birth rates of a population being equal to the sum of individual births over a designated time frame.

Many religious mythologies had a view of Earth as being a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts ( e. g. some Native American religions and various forms of shamanism ).

This ought to have been a comfortable sum of money ( at the time many working-class families had " round about a pound a week " as their entire household income ) yet in his Experiment in Autobiography, Wells speaks of constantly being hungry, and indeed, photographs of him at the time show a youth very thin and malnourished.

As Diogenes explains: All things come into being by conflict of opposites, and the sum of things ( τὰ ὅλα ta hola, " the whole ") flows like a stream.

This was to be based on utilitarian principles ; he said: " Every man has a right to that, the exclusive possession of which being awarded to him, a greater sum of benefit or pleasure will result than could have arisen from its being otherwise appropriated.

Macroevolution can be seen as the sum of long periods of microevolution, and thus the two are qualitatively identical while being quantitatively different.

Merge algorithms generally run in time proportional to the sum of the lengths of the lists ; merge algorithms that operate on large numbers of lists at once will multiply the sum of the lengths of the lists by the time to figure out which of the pointers points to the lowest item, which can be accomplished with a heap-based priority queue in O ( log n ) time, for O ( m log n ) time, where n is the number of lists being merged and m is the sum of the lengths of the lists.

To work out the product of two polynomials into a sum of terms, the distributive law is repeatedly applied, which results in each term of one polynomial being multiplied by every term of the other.

However, despite also being called the direct sum of rings when I is finite, the product of rings is not a coproduct in the sense of category theory.

The historian David Boyle has estimated this sum as being equivalent to around £ 2 bn at 2011 prices.

One famous quotation by Terence reads: " Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto ", or " I am a human being, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.