Accumulation Quotes - Page 15

• Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Wisdom, Understanding, One Thing

  Donna Jo Napoli (2012). “Bound”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Years, Two, Quality

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

  Charlie Munger

  Pieces, Paper, Littles

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• Knowledge is the accumulation of facts wisdom is the deduction from these facts of useful laws, a process which can only take place by comparing the facts in one compartment with those in all others, thus giving a vision of the whole.

  Vera Stanley Alder

  Law, Giving, Vision

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• No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Cooperation, Individual

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• ...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese workers ... suffer from general ill-health and an excessive accumulation of unwholesome humors caused by their sedentary life ... so to some extent counteract the harm done by many days of sedentary life. On the association between chronic inactivity and poor health. Ramazzini urged that workers should at least exercise on holidays

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Holiday, Exercise, Science

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• Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Growth, Survival

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.37, Friederich Nietzsche

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• Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates.

  Daniel R. White

  Learning, School, Years

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• A person who will not take care of the little things will not take
  care of the big things, for big things are but an accumulation of
  little things.

  Jack Hyles

  Care, Littles, Little Things

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• I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

  David Millar

  Done, Good And Bad

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• People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful
  conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of
  living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities
  whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, People, Evil

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth, to the end that man may free himself from superstitious fear, to the end that he may take advantage of the forces of nature to feed and clothe the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1905). “Lectures and Essays (a Selection)”

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• Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the strings of government. Competing institutions-religion, the press, even the military-play subordinate roles in much of the world today. If a values-driven approach to business can begin to redirect this vast power toward more constructive ends than the simple accumulation of wealth, the human race and Planet Earth will have a fighting chance.

  Ben Cohen

  Lying, Military, Fighting

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• The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.

  T. Coleman Andrews

  Pride, Men, Self

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• The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks production.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Real, Balance, Taxation

  "The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt".

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• There would be no accumulation of strength inside
  if the choices that you make
  did not require disipline and intention.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Would Be, Intention

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Aug 31, 2015

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• The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

  Thomas J. Stanley

  Foundation, Defense, Budgeting

  Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (1996). “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy”, p.38, Government Institutes

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• Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities

  Gabriel Zaid

  Wealth, Possibility

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• History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads, and other useful public works, the capital needed was provided by the savings of individual citizens and borrowed by the government.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Example, Doe

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Justice, Police

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Development, Facts

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• It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Self, Progress, Realization

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• The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Nature, Animal, Cities

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• Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the image. And this negative comes off, and the fossil is the positive side. This is the same as the action of photography.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Negative, Records

  "Tradition: Hiroshi Sugimoto". ART21 interview, art21.org.

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• What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?

  Jennifer James

  Children, Optimistic, Views

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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