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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Alexander Graham Bell
Success
Result
Men
Those
Steady
Most
End
Accretion
In The End
Success Is
Successful
Whose
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
Time
Language
Free
Every
Range
Composition
Both
Freely
Dialect
Accretion
Race
Viewed
English
English Language
Growth
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
Good
Argument
Whatever
Think
Details
Invalid
General
Only
Particular
Make
Conclusions
Accretion
Short
Being
Fiction
Rhetorical
Short Story
Story
Against
Specificity
Things
Application
Wider
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.
Harry Shearer
Entertainment
Creative
World
Profit
Side
Minimal
Financing
Lies
Darker
Entertainment Industry
Opaque
Share
Talent
Industry
Revenue
Ambitious
Accretion
Behind
Ordinary
Little
Hollywood
Film
Appreciated