Accretion Quotes
On the slow, layered way things come to be.
These quotes treat accretion as a pattern rather than an event: a language shaped dialect by dialect, a life shaped decision by decision. One writer even traces a war back to a long chance series of choices, each defensible at the time.
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.
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...
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Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
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...
Argument Quotes
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...
