Accumulation Quotes
240 quotes by 196 authors
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Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which…
— Henry De la Beche
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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential…
— Mark Epstein
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Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.
— Al-Shafi‘i
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India was a late comer to industrialization, and as such, we have contributed very little to the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global…
— Manmohan Singh
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I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we…
— Robert E. Lee
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All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details,…
— Rohinton Mistry
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Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods... An investigative process in depth is necessary here if,…
— J. Allen Hynek
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Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling…
— Pope Pius XII
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What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of…
— Robert Muller
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And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away…
— Benjamin Franklin
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In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences.…
— Bernhard von Cotta
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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.
— Diane Setterfield
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Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of abnormalities of the…
— Hilde Bruch
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