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  • Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day. -- Brian D. McLaren
  • Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses. -- Mark Rippetoe
  • Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing. -- Tian Dayton
  • If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful. -- Gautama Buddha
  • Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth. -- Stephen Richards
  • Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. -- Susan Sontag
  • [S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts. -- Alexander Hamilton
  • Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating. -- B. C. Forbes
  • What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life? -- Paulo Coelho
  • You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
  • Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating. -- Robin Sharma
  • We become happier not by accumulating more things but by creating richer experiences -- Robin Sharma
  • Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit. -- Pema Chodron
  • I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience. -- Bridget Riley
  • You achieve greatness, not by accumulating wealth, but by becoming king, loving, forgiving, and simple. -- Debasish Mridha
  • I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable. -- Michael Longley
  • I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience -- Bridget Riley
  • Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. -- Charles Babbage
  • I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias. -- Vikram Seth
  • I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. -- Andrew Carnegie
  • The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money. -- Clarence Darrow
  • Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials. -- Joseph Story
  • There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people. -- James A. Baldwin
  • Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. -- Oscar Wilde
  • They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. -- Mark Twain
  • There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service. -- Napoleon Hill
  • The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences. -- Mark Patterson
  • Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body -- George Carlin
  • Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain. -- Laura Schlessinger
  • With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it. -- Christian de Duve
  • A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. -- P. T. Barnum
  • Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. -- Clarence Day
  • Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. -- Clarence Day
  • The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
  • I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats. -- Freya Stark
  • I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs -- Kathleen Turner
  • There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that. -- Pete Domenici
  • How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along? -- Rachel Klein
  • We have concerns whenever we see people who have large stockpiles of weapons, or appear to be in the process of accumulating weapons and ammunition. -- Barack Obama
  • I've got a huge, huge position in mortgage-backed securities. I started accumulating them in 2009, when the market was really down and things were really scary. -- Jeff Greene
  • Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps. -- Charles Darwin
  • As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me. -- Jennifer Tipton
  • Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
  • We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems. -- Gunter Pauli
  • Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer. -- Thia Megia
  • Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way. -- Laozi
  • I go through life accumulating possessions... I've always done it... and then, every once in a while, a sort of tidal wave comes along and washes them all away. -- Preston Sturges
  • I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives. -- Mitchell Kapor
  • [Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government. -- James Madison
  • I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives. -- Mitchell Kapor
  • This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate. -- John Butler
  • The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated. -- Jose Rizal
  • Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth -- Napoleon Hill
  • That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. -- Denis Waitley
  • Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were perfectly satisfied with the narrative they were constructing. -- Kerry James Marshall
  • I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processesâ?¦If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look. -- Clifford Allbutt
  • Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked. -- Abdus Salam
  • Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked." -- Abdus Salam
  • Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief. -- Gloria Estefan
  • The issues which have created the difficult, multiplex conditions our umma finds itself in have been accumulating over a long time. The treatment is going to be multidimensional, prolonged and has to be cumulative. -- Habib Ali al-Jifri
  • The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country. -- Jairam Ramesh
  • I think it is what you do with your wealth that is important. I don't believe in accumulating money for money's sake. It's one of the reasons I want to do more about helping women. -- Cherie Blair
  • Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge. -- Robert Crawford
  • Utilitarians are usually empiricists who think they can solve every problem by accumulating enough empirical facts. They do not realize that thinking as well as experience is necessary to know anything or get anything right. -- Allen W. Wood
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