Pat Buchanan

The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.

American Journalist

John Burroughs

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

American Author

George Saunders

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.

American Writer

James Fallows

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

Harry Shearer

Behind the ambitious, creative talent that is Hollywood lies a darker side of the entertainment industry little appreciated by the ordinary moviegoer. It's an opaque world of film financing, revenue accretion, and minimal profit share.

American Actor

Pico Iyer

Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.

Indian Writer

Walt Whitman

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.

American Poet

Richard Le Gallienne

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

English Poet

Alexander Graham Bell

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

Scottish Inventor

Jonas Salk

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

American Scientist

Accretion emphasizes a slow and gradual build-up, not a sudden increase.

Gradual Addition

'Accretion' usually has a neutral or positive connotation, suggesting beneficial or natural growth.

Positive or Neutral

In finance, accretion highlights the aspect of increasing value over time, owing to reinvestment.

Investment Growth

Use 'accretion' to describe the cumulative effect in finance, not just single additions.

Compound Effect

'Accretion' has a specific meaning in science related to growth by continuous material collection.

Science Specific

In science, 'accretion' refers to natural processes and isn't used for man-made construction.

Natural Processes

In law, accretion is about increasing property size often due to natural changes.

Property Increment

Accretion in law isn't about sudden or man-made additions but gradual natural changes.

Not Sudden Change

 is a supermassive black hole. Now, black holes are invisible. That's why they're called that. All you can see is the deflection of the light around them, and occasionally, when a star or a cloud of gas comes into their orbit, it is ripped apart by tidal forces, forming what we call an accretion disk.

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 connected if they're in trouble you're in trouble it's time for artistic synergistic life support living sea sculptures using bio Rock mineral accretion technology by running low voltage current through seawater the limestone minerals abundant in the ocean deposit onto metal and the resulting

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 and has a diameter about the distance between the earth and our sun. Because black holes are invisible, the only way for scientists to detect and study them is to observe their effect on nearby matter. This includes accretion disks, a disk of particles that form when gases and dust

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 The dinner plate by which material falls onto the black hole is called the accretion disc, shown here in blue. Some of that material is slingshotted around the black hole and accelerated to insanely high speeds in the jet, shown here in white. Although the blazar system is rare,

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 An accretion itself is a huge sink of carbon dioxide. Also it will attract the local marine ecology, who will find their own ecological niches within this architecture. So, this is really interesting. Now we have an architecture that connects a city to the natural world

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 success of police unions to make this impenetrable ideal of the police officer is the the only thing standing between you and chaos and and people have reacted accordingly giving them more and more power as we see it's been an accretion of power in police unions over

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 overrule empirical, experimental evidence. His vision, uncluttered by speculation or rationalization, went deep. Steno had seen how gallstones form in wet organs by accretion. They obeyed molding principles he knew from the goldsmith trade,

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 They’d swarm in an orbit around a black hole, perhaps on the plane of its accretion disk, but farther out. These devices could use mirror-like panels to transmit the collected energy to a powerplant, or a battery for storage.

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 We have to disrupt our lives so that we can disrupt the amoral accretion of power by those who would betray our values. We and we the people must raise justice up and must bring peace to our nation

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 when she "The accretion of incremental, imperceptible changes which can constitute progress and which render our era dramatically different from the past" -- the past was much more stable --