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Letter "A" » accumulation
«Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.»
«Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house»
Author: Henri Poincar
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About:
Science
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Keywords:
accumulation,
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built,
built up,
facts,
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heaping,
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house,
no more,
science,
stones
«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 fill it with the accumulation of others.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
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Theologian)
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About:
Education,
Learning,
Thinking
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Keywords:
accumulation,
accumulations,
discipline,
fill,
furnish,
furnished with,
furnishing,
powers,
train
«When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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Keywords:
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biologically,
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Fed,
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guilt,
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rat,
remorse,
seventies,
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spans,
The WELL,
thrown
«The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny»
Author: James Madison
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President)
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About:
Power
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Keywords:
accumulation,
accumulations,
appointed,
appointing,
appoints,
definition,
elective,
executive,
Executive power,
hereditary,
judiciary,
justly,
legislative,
Legislative power,
powers,
pronounced,
pronouncing,
self-appointed
«Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.»
«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.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
abolish,
abolishes,
abolishing,
accumulation,
accumulations,
city,
Creation,
Death itself,
destroys,
horror,
ideal,
mere,
million,
multiply,
One In A Million,
parasite,
rear,
rearing,
rears,
swelled,
swell up,
swollen,
throws
«No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
accumulation,
accumulations,
interests,
massed,
nobler,
private,
private interest,
public interest,
The Public Interest
«An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.»