"A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to……" — Elwyn Brooks White

"A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy."

— Elwyn Brooks White

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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. — Arthur Bloch
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. — David Byrne
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. — Andrew Carnegie
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. — Noam Chomsky
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. — A J P Taylor
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away. — Wayne Dyer

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