Sentence examples for the mere accumulation from inspiring English sources

Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Without deeper organizing principles, they say, the mere accumulation and organization of genetic data will not shed light on how life works.

We needn't rejoice at the mere accumulation of numbers, independent of context (although the Yankees should pay their man his due).

The first politician to rail publicly against the GDP was Senator Robert Kennedy in March 1968: "Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

But as Bobby Kennedy famously said in his 1968 speech at the University of Kansas: Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Still, in that rare moment of silence and solitude, I felt convinced that a society of such material plenitude would eventually foster spiritual longings that could not be appeased by the mere accumulation of goods — a historical lesson that may be useful to remember as Hong Kong hurtles, as apparently heedlessly as ever, toward the future.

This represent the opposite of the predominant philosophy in our area, a mere accumulation of technology will overwhelm users.

McClintock noted a large quantity of heavy goods in the lifeboat at the "boat place" and thought them "a mere accumulation of dead weight, of little use, and very likely to break down the strength of the sledge-crews".

A key to the understanding of biological processes is to go beyond mere accumulation of observations, even on the large scale as in multi-omics data collection, and to move towards their quantitative prediction.

By contemplating that we are the doer of this and that, we accumulate an ego which is mere accumulation of thoughts and create an ore of misery for ourselves.

No matter how strikingly rendered, a series of moments and images ultimately needs causation rather than mere accumulation to move the story forward.