Quantity Quotes - Page 2

• In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

  Hesiod

  Perseverance, Sweat, Long

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• We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Health, Kids, Commitment

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• Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.

  John W. Campbell

  Science, Numbers, Effort

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• The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

  Victor Hugo

  Civilization, Imagination, Quality

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

  Francis Quarles

  Generosity, Giving, Quality

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions--divine: Contemplative, Practical; Moral: Ethical, Œconomical, Political”, p.71

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• Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Perfect, Heaven

  "The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory". Book by Milton Friedman, June 1, 1970.

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• I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Character, Thinking, People

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• The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

  Aristotle

  Water, Democracy, Littles

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2041, Princeton University Press

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• We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Aging, Conformity

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• Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

  Claudius

  Important, Quality, Wit

  "Fictional character: Claudius". "I, Claudius". Episode 11: "Fool's Luck", www.imdb.com. November 22, 1976.

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• It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Hands, Trying

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• Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Reality, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Quality

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• It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspiring, Education, Littles

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention; and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at.

  Simone Weil

  Rely Upon, Rights, Tone

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• A quantity which is increased or decreased by an infinitely small quantity is neither increased nor decreased.

  Johann Bernoulli

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• It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity.

  Buck Brannaman

  Communication, Quality

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• Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.

  Burt Rutan

  Reality, Years, Ideas

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• I like big drinks that aren't afraid of the alcohol in them. Not big in size, but in flavor, and the way I can allow myself to enjoy them is by making them in very small quantities. I make tiny glasses of very big drinks.

  Rachel Maddow

  Glasses, Alcohol, Flavor

  "Rachel Maddow’s Star Power". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2009.

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• There is no longer any question about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. The greater the quantity and assortment of fruits and vegetables consumed, the lower the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. There is still some controversy about which foods cause which cancers and whether certain types of fat are the culprits with certain cancers, but there's one thing we know for sure: raw vegetables and fresh fruits have powerful anti-cancer agents.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Powerful, Cancer, Heart

  Joel Fuhrman (2011). “Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!

  Brian Tracy

  Home, Quality

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• I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

  Connor Franta

  Quality, Work In Progress, Decent

  Connor Franta (2015). “A Work in Progress: A Memoir”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Indeed, the quantity of PCBs still in use plus the quantity still languishing in waste dumps exceeds the total amount that has already escaped into the general environment. Without a program to recall and contain them, semivolatile PCBs will continue to insinuate themselves into the food chain for decades.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Environmental, Use, Waste

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.136, Da Capo Press

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• By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible.

  Omar Khayyam

  Determination, Art, Numbers

  "Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra" by Omar Khayyám, 1070.

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