#accretion

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. ↗

— Jonas Salk

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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#both #composition #dialect #english #english language