Accretions Quotes
- All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were… — Havelock Ellis
- All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. — Richard Le Gallienne
- English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English… — Robert A. Heinlein
- Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting… — Wallace Stegner
- The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi