“Success comes from slow and steady little accumulations of minor tasks over many years.”
Lorrin L. Lee
“Increasingly, it seems Asian countries are wanting to slow the pace of reserve accumulation, given how high they have gotten.”
Callum Henderson
“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.”
William J. Brennan Jr.
“When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?”
Cyril Connolly
“Things don't end; They just accumulate”
Russell Hoban
“The dead of Rwanda accumulated at nearly three times the rate of Jewish dead during the Holocaust. It was the most efficient mass killings since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
Philip Gourevitch