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Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.

Jonas Salk

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It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

Anton Chekhov

— Letter to S.P. Kuvshinnikova (December 25, 1888)

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She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.

thomas hardy

— Phase the Second: Maiden No More, ch. XIII

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