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Letter "A" » accumulations
«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,
accumulations,
built,
built up,
facts,
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heaped,
heaping,
heap up,
house,
no more,
science,
stones
«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»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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About:
Age
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Keywords:
accumulations,
ambition,
ego,
material,
middle,
middle age,
period,
possessions,
shedding,
shell,
shells
«People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.»
Author: Jesse Owens
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Athlete)
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Keywords:
accumulations,
at best,
bag,
closet,
incongruous,
matching,
outfit,
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seconds,
Second Coming,
ten seconds,
The Second Coming
«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:
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accumulation,
accumulations,
city,
Creation,
Death itself,
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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
«Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.»
«An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.»
«A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.»