Collection
The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
That which is collected
A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
That which is obtained in payment of demands.
An accumulation of any substance.
The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
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Collection Quotations
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy
I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.
Steven Wright
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus
I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.
Ron White
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Virginia Woolf
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
William Tecumseh Sherman
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley
Collection Translations
collection in Afrikaans is insameling, bundel, versameling
collection in Danish is samling
collection in Dutch is schare, drift, kudde, groep, hoop
collection in French is collection, recueil
collection in German is Sammlung
collection in Italian is incasso, collezkone
collection in Norwegian is samling
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