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• Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.

  Nick Saban

  Character, Priorities, Habit

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• There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

  John Wooden

  High Standards, Done, Littles

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• Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Appreciate, Effort

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 13, 2014

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• What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Saving, Small Business, Bigs

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Past, Shapes

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• If there is one common theme to the vast range of crises...it is that excessive debt accumulation, whether it be by the government, banks, corporations, or consumers, often poses greater systemic risks than it seems during a boom.

  Carmen Reinhart

  Government, Risk, Debt

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• You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

  Richard Armitage

  Greed, Wealth, Sentiments

  Source: collider.com

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• Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

  Louis Nizer

  Ability

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• Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Learning, Science, History

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1960). “My Life and Times as a Physicist”

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• I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

  Lynn Margulis

  Mutation, Taught, Evidence

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• The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

  Charles Hard Townes

  Views, Effort, Challenges

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• It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Interesting, Bird

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• I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

  Noam Chomsky

  Executive Power, Executives

  "Noam Chomsky on Venezuela - the transcript". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.

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• I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.

  Howard Zinn

  Book, Opportunity, People

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.203, Beacon Press

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• All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Real, Writing, Perception

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• Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods... An investigative process in depth is necessary here if, after twenty years of confusion, we want some answers.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Years, Confusion, Depth

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• Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

  Jeanette Winterson

  Light, Secret, Body

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “The Passion”, p.165, Random House

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• Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Failure, Age

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Years, Guarantees, Life Experience

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• There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.

  Julian Barnes

  Responsibility, Unrest

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• I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

  Robert E. Lee

  Country, War, Sacrifice

  Letter to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, January 23, 1861.

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• He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

  Zadie Smith

  Rose, Political, Construction

  "On Beauty". Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

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• What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a very special way. It came to be used with the primary objective or intent of self-expansion. In this system, past accumulations were 'capital' only to the extend they were used to accumulate more of the same.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Past, Self, Historical

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• I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.

  Tori Amos

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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