Ivan Pavlov
Physiologist
"Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge."
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Accumulation
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Stephen Covey
Author, Speaker
"Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Many littles make a much."
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"Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip."
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"There will grow from straws a mighty heap."
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"I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere."
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"No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests."
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"Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth."
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"[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt."
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"There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest."
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"What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?"
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"One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future."
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"Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so."
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"Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money."
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"Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure."
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"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
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