I wanted a feeling of accumulation. I really wanted the moments to add up because they do add up. I wanted to… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is…or how devastating. One story… — Bhaskaryya Deka Copy Share Image
There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That’s why I like to listen to Schubert while I’m driving. Like I said, it’s because all the performances are imperfect. A… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict… — Yuan T. Lee Copy Share Image
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
“The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The key to a great life lies in shifting your focus from accumulation to contribution. The old saying "He who gathers the… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
A curious mind does not say to consumers "What do you want?" A curious mind understands context, understands behavior, understands spending and… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who… — Saadi Copy Share Image
It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation… — Richard Goldschmidt Copy Share Image
Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of… — Hilde Bruch Copy Share Image
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The soul lives forever by giving, not receiving. This is the grand paradox. You get most by giving most. Conversely, by receiving… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods... An investigative process in depth is… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of]… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to… — Ana Mendieta Copy Share Image
In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you get a flow of credit increasing, as we've seen in the last few years - that flow of credit didn't… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Eventually economic growth reaches the point at which the accumulation of wealth in the families of achievers becomes so significant that the… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
To me, if there is any sort of value added to the accumulation of knowledge over time, then the work of artists… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image