Quantity Quotes - Page 10

• There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Faces, Humans, Persons

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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• The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

  John Ruskin

  Strength, Country, Don't Give Up

  John Ruskin (188?). “Works: Fors clavigera”

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• I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.

  Ben Stein

  Eggs, Shopping, Insane

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• Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Clothes, Quality Not Quantity, Lasts

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• I am surprised at the number of Puerto Ricans that are moving out of Puerto Rico still. I thought that, by now, the immigration of Puerto Ricans had decreased a little bit. But, no, with a hurricane, it has increased even more. So, I see the financial institutions, especially the hedge funds, moving into Puerto Rico with all the - with all the force, knowing that their investments towards the future are going to be multiplied or probably elevated to quantities beyond any notion of how capital works.

  Oscar Lopez Rivera

  Moving, Immigration, Financial

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The automatic Kalashnikov is a tool, an implement designed for ordinary men, without much training or undue complications, to kill other men, and to be used in the conditions in which wars are often fought. But it's only a tool, and while its ready availability in many unstable lands can be seen as kindling violence, this is not simply because of the weapon's qualities themselves. It is because of the quantities of the weapons that have been made.

  C. J. Chivers

  War, Men, Training

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The weirdest thing with friends, the way you measure it is if you go without communicating for months at a time, you can sit down and within five seconds be right where you were. I know it's a cliché, but quality not quantity, and that bond will not disintegrate. It does need to be tended to but it won't go away. It's amazing, though - I'm here in New York where my best friend from college lives, and we see each other twice a year and we're right where we were and a lot of it's unspoken.

  Matthew Weiner

  College, Going Away, Quality

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature to children. That judgment has got to be based on quality rather than quantity. It's the same old problem that continually plagues American culture. I would rather have children playing their own games out of doors in the sunlight than getting the misrepresentation of literature as given by Walt Disney.

  Frances Clarke Sayers

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

  Louis L'Amour

  Knowledge, Increase, Hopefully

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• Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.

  Michael Schudson

  Character, Government, Age

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.16, Routledge

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• It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

  William Ellery Channing (1840). “Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community”, p.25

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• 'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of changes, this number doesn't change. That is, if you calculate again, this quantity, it'll be the same as it was before. An example is the conservation of energy: there's a quantity that you can calculate according to a certain rule, and it comes out the same answer after, no matter what happens, happens.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Change, Nature, Mean

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• There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Secret, Desire

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• The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is any feasible alternative. There is no need for such arbitrary power... Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes - excusable or not - can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective check by the body politic - this is the key political argument against an independent central bank.

  Milton Friedman

  Trust, Mistake, Independent

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• When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.

  Brian Tracy

  Fall, Thinking, Quality

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• The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero.

  Bryan Caplan

  Zero, Fall, Law

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• The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Quality Not Quantity, Long, Mind

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 3)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.

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• But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

  Christopher Columbus

  Gold, Purpose, Spices

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.54

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• We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

  Marvin Minsky

  Quality, Compare, Turns

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wisdom, Hard Work, Maturity

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• I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

  Charles Dickens

  Trust, Honesty, Business

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.11724, Delphi Classics

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• The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

  Sylvia Earle

  Enormous Quantities, Two, Oil

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

  Leonhard Euler

  Zero, Answers, Mystery

  "Fundamentals of Teaching Mathematics at University Level". Book by Benjamin Baumslag, 2000.

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• As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.

  Atul Gawande

  Team, Doctors, Practice

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• Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Beauty, Fashion, Passion

  "Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings". Book by Fayek S. Hourani, p. 169, 2012.

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