"Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion……" — Walt Whitman

More Accretion Quotes

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• The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. — Alexander Graham Bell
• The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the… — Alexander Graham Bell
• When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the… — Tennessee Williams
• The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force… — Felix Frankfurter
• Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely… — Alex Kozinski
• Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. — Jonas Salk
• I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short… — George Saunders
• The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a… — Edith Wharton
• It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer… — William Faulkner
• The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly… — Alex Haley
• All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant… — Elihu Burritt
• The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the… — Alexander Graham Bell

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