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• How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Names, Looks, Debt

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• 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

  Fall, Raindrops, Jars

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• I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sweet, Time, People

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• The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.

  Catharine Beecher

  Family, Powerful, Divorce

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1871). “Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession”, p.9

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• Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies the physical scientist with new instrumental means for discovering and interpreting phenomena of nature, which in their turn afford foundations of fresh generalisations, bringing gains of permanent value into the great storehouse of natural philosophy.

  Lord Kelvin

  Philosophy, Mean, Law

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• In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Character, Bridges

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.488

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• While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

  H. E Davey

  Wisdom, Real, Reading

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• For me, personally, there is one really interesting thing. You're all a bit too young for that, but when you get to a certain level of experience, accumulation of experience you start slowly to once in a while get a whiff of the feeling, I'd love to be twenty years younger but with what I know and have experienced at this point.

  Christoph Waltz

  Years, Interesting, Feelings

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• Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.

  Scott Adams

  Dog, Knowledge, Science

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• 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

  Country, Government, Growth

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.126

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• Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.

  Danny Glover

  Monday, Morning, White

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge.

  John D. Caputo

  Order, Kingdoms, Firsts

  John D. Caputo (2014). “How To Read Kierkegaard”, p.14, Granta Books

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• Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems.

  Eric Beinhocker

  Problem, Prosperity, Humans

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• You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women's movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Motherhood, Years, Daddy

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.

  Max De Pree

  Trials, Treasure, Tribulation

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• We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared. Life is not a resource to be used up, so that the older we get, the less life we have left. Life is the accumulation of wisdom, love and experience of people encountered and obstacles overcome. The longer we live, the more life we possess.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Age, Overcoming

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• Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

  Robert Kennedy

  Long, Community, Excellence

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

  Carl Jung

  World, Dangerous, Humans

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence.

  Thomas Paine

  People, Age, Littles

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution.

  James Truslow Adams

  Confused, Men, Years

  "To 'Be' or to 'DO'" Forum, Volume LXXXI, No. 6, June 1929.

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• Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

  John Piper

  Worry, Generosity, Simplicity

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• It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.

  William Ellery Channing

  Interesting, Unexpected, Study

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• The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

  William Falconer

  Numbers, Vices, Moral Corruption

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• A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

  William Ellery Channing

  Together, Bricks, Dignity

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.7

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• One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

  William Ellery Channing

  Hands, Evil, World

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(XXX, 387 p.)”, p.22

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