Accumulation Quotes - Page 8

• My concern over private property is that it no longer fosters individuality. The historic destiny of private property is that it has created a highly corporatized economy, and I have to ask myself why. What is it in the market that led 100 capitalists to dissolve into 10 as a result of rivalry and accumulation, 10 into 3, and I think if the system has its way, those 3 into 1?

  Murray Bookchin

  Destiny, Thinking, Individuality

  Source: reason.com

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• A curious mind does not say to consumers "What do you want?" A curious mind understands context, understands behavior, understands spending and spending patterns - the accumulation of a day's purchases, or spending over a week or a year. A curious mind asks the questions that open up the consumer to talk about her latent dissatisfactions, hopes, wishes, and dreams.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Dream, Years, Mind

  Michael J. Silverstein, Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen, Rohan Sajdeh (2015). “Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth”, p.6, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Once the dollar begins to collapse beneath the weight of all this new deficit spending, accumulation of contingency liabilities and the socialization of our economy, commodity prices and interest rates will head skyward.

  Peter Schiff

  Commodity Prices, Weight, Dollars

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• The soul lives forever by giving, not receiving. This is the grand paradox. You get most by giving most. Conversely, by receiving much you impoverish yourself. By selfish accumulation you become bankrupt.

  Julian Johnson

  Selfish, Giving Not Receiving, Forever

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• The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.

  Rafael Correa

  Latin, America, Instruments

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to do the work of parenting in the isolation of their own homes - and not only that, this trend has overlapped with the other trend of much deeper parent involvement in raising kids. That you also represent trend No. 3, more people raising kids solo, has only exacerbated a close-to-no-win situation.

  Carolyn Hax

  Home, Kids, Winning

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 8, 2016.

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• Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who don’t have enough money to buy food should end up paying for their drinking water. That is going to be the kind of situation in which you will get more child labor. You will get more exploitation of women. You’re going to get an absolutely exploitative economy as the very basis of living becomes a source of capital accumulation and corporate growth. In fact, the chief of Coca-Cola in India said: “Our biggest market in India comes from the fact that there is no drinking water left. People will have to buy Coca-Cola.

  Vandana Shiva

  Children, Drinking, People

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• Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.

  Patricia Churchland

  Decision, Movement, Neurons

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I feel blessed to have had the accumulation of life experiences that I've had, life experience just adds to the depths of a persons richness, as with acting!

  Aeriel Miranda

  Blessed, Acting, Depth

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• When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.

  Rob Brown

  Ideas, Branches, Might

  "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

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• There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Trying, Use, World

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of our soul and the generosity of Spirit made manifest by the giving of our gifts.

  Michael Beckwith

  Generosity, Giving, Soul

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• We're mathematically past the point where the accumulation of individual actions can add up quickly enough to make a difference. The individual action that actually matters is not being an individual. It's joining together with other people in groups large enough to change the political dynamic around climate change.

  Bill McKibben

  Past, Differences, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere:
  ... and thus it comes about gradually by the linking and accumulation of a great many revolutions that a kind of concave sphere is displayed, having the same center as the Sun, just as by a great many circles of silken thread, linked with each other and wound together, the dwelling of a silkworm is made.

  Johannes Kepler

  Circles, Dwelling, Together

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• The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons. Who we are as a society, is the synergistic accumulation of who we are as individuals... Small changes that seem insignificant in isolation can be great contributions when they are simultaneously undertaken by many others.

  Duane Elgin

  Character, Small Changes, Environmental

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• Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the Internet. We've become numb, so we do nothing. The accumulation of passivity might make reading about that exploitation uncomfortable. And sometimes when I'm writing, I think of it like this: "People seem to like garbage, so here is what garbage smells like..."

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "Go Forth (Vol. 36)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. August 25, 2015.

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• It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting.

  Jacques Ellul

  Spiritual, Fighting, Numbers

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• Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Always Trying, Want, Empires

  "Don of the Dirtbags: An Interview with Yvon Chouinard". The Vertical Interview, theusualmontauk.com. October 22, 2016.

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• Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Ambition, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.229, Oxford University Press

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Silly, Wine

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• What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain.

  George Carlin

  Data, Brain, Mind

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Age, Skins, Comfort

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• David Shi (historian of the simple life) describes the common denominator among the various approaches to simpler living as the understanding that the making of money and the accumulation of things should not smother the purity of the soul, the life of the mind, the cohesion of the family, or the good of the society.

  Duane Elgin

  Simple, Understanding, Soul

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• Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Effort, Acquisition, Life Is

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• In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.

  Leland Stanford

  Organization, Distribution Of Wealth, Mercy

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