"Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple,"……" — Paulo Coelho

"Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."

— Paulo Coelho

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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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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations… — William J. Brennan
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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