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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. -- H. G. Wells
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution. -- Stephen Covey
Courage is only an accumulation of small steps. -- Gyorgy Konrad
Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so. -- Swami Vivekananda
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. -- Arnold Palmer
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. -- Mark Twain
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere. -- Gary Becker
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. -- Ovid
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good. -- Anita Roddick
As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development. -- Toshihiko Fukui
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole -- Karl Marx
The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth. -- Michael Parenti
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. -- William Graham Sumner
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion. -- Chris Abani
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. -- Guy Debord
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. -- Brian Ferneyhough
Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit. -- Andrew Carnegie
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others. -- Tryon Edwards
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. -- James Madison
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation. -- Roland Barthes
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. -- Charles Babbage
Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society. -- Yuan T. Lee
If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn. -- David Ricardo
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. -- Gyorgy Konrad
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy. -- Peter Singer
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. -- D. H. Lawrence
History is an accumulation of error. -- Norman Cousins
..[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt... -- George Washington
Joyful is the accumulation of good work. -- Gautama Buddha
There would be no accumulation of strength inside -- Gary Zukav
Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities -- Gabriel Zaid
Big challenges are an accumulation of small challenges. -- Anne Wojcicki
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. -- Yuri Milner
Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline. -- Buzz Aldrin
Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen. -- Rem Koolhaas
What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories? -- S.J. Watson
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. -- Noam Chomsky
Excellence results from the accumulation of proper choices compounded over time. -- Orrin Woodward
The accumulation of toxins in the body/mind system accelerates aging. -- Deepak Chopra
Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up. -- E. B. White
What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage? -- Felix Dennis
Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems. -- Eric Beinhocker
The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time. -- David Harvey
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors. -- Marshall McLuhan
This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects. -- David Levithan
What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident. -- Colum McCann
I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad. -- David Millar
Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation. -- Helen and Scott Nearing
Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it. -- Louis Nizer
I hate that word blog It sounds like a large accumulation of snot -- Melissa James Gibson
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space. -- David Harvey
Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth. -- Mark Lynas
The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts. -- Tom Rath
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding -- Donna Jo Napoli
There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest. -- Julian Barnes
Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing. -- Sonia Sotomayor
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past. -- Haruki Murakami
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. -- Rafael Correa
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living. -- Vandana Shiva
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts. -- Albert Einstein
Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah. -- Al-Shafiâ??i
Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence, -- Calvin Coolidge
What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities. -- Haruki Murakami
What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. -- Ellen Goodman
Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis. -- Nick Saban
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. -- Eckhart Tolle
What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for. -- Steven Redhead
Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. -- Julian Barnes
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. -- Haruki Murakami
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. -- David Byrne
Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin. -- Reese Witherspoon
What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation. -- Ludwig von Mises
Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is. -- Aubrey de Grey
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility. -- Michael Gove
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more. -- Horace
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts. -- James Bryant Conant
You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth. -- Richard Armitage
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills. -- Swami Vivekananda
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation. -- John Piper
The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning. -- Thomas J. Stanley
Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates. -- Brian Tracy
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands. -- William Ellery Channing
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. -- Okakura Kakuz?
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. -- Okakura Kakuz?
Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. -- Moses Finley
Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them. -- Nido R Qubein
Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity. -- Jim Rohn
Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have. -- John C. Maxwell
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most. -- Henry Van Dyke
The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing. -- Vladimir Putin
Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world. -- Robin Hobb
I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort. -- Greg Roberts
There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance. -- John Wooden
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts. -- Andrew Marr
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered. -- Stefan Molyneux
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge. -- Ivan Pavlov
One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future. -- Tao Lin
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. -- John Maynard Keynes
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. -- Robert Kennedy
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip. -- Susan Sontag
Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth. -- Kobe Bryant
Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation. -- Ludwig von Mises
A wheat belly represents the accumulation of fat that results from years of consuming foods that trigger insulin, the hormone of fat storage. -- William Davis
One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them. -- Dion Fortune
A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people. -- Adam Smith
Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled. -- Gautama Buddha
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good. -- Gautama Buddha
The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions. -- Ludwig von Mises
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people. -- Napoleon Hill
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own. -- John Adams
It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain. -- Mike Birbiglia
The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty. -- Margaret Thatcher

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