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• A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

  Margaret Atwood

  Food, Space, Doe

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.310, Anchor

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• A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

  Neil Peart

  Light, Color, Justice

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• Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Eye, Essence, Two

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• Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

  Milan Kundera

  Culture, Avalanches, Madness

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". 1988.

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• I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Cutting, Thinking

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• Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

  Julian Baggini

  Quality, Firsts, Appropriate

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• Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

  Kailash Kher

  Bollywood, Albums, Have Faith

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• Who doesn't know about Bollywood? After all, we churn out movies in such great quantities every year! People across the globe know Shekhar Kapur.

  Arjun Rampal

  Years, People, Bollywood

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• We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Government, Data, Uranium Mining

  "Why I'm quitting Facebook". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

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• The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.

  Flann O'Brien

  Moving, Men, Feet

  Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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• It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

  Voltaire

  Book, Silent, Increase

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.149, Penguin

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• I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Hamlet And Ophelia, Tempest

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [291]

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• This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

  Robert Bolt

  Able, Firsts, Greedy

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• And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Frustration, Men, Order

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• Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Memories, Men, Letters

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• Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Alcohol, May

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• In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.

  Saul Bellow

  Depressing, Crazy, Humble

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• Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to another. But if we face a monopolist we are at his absolute mercy. And an authority directing the whole economic system of the country would be the most powerful monopolist conceivable…it would have complete power to decide what we are to be given and on what terms. It would not only decide what commodities and services were to be available and in what quantities; it would be able to direct their distributions between persons to any degree it liked.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Powerful, Choices

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• I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.

  Bill Bryson

  Running, Travel, Home

  "Neither Here Nor There". Book by Bill Bryson, 2012.

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• You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment." I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct. "She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.

  Sarah Caudwell

  Reading, Pride, Drug

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• Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Quality, Produce

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• And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Two, Brain

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “The Adventures of Sally (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.207, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

  Jean Rhys

  Book, Heaven, Solitude

  Jean Rhys (1981). “Quartet”

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• Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.

  Julian Barnes

  Pain, Taken, Drunk

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.97, Random House

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• Quantity has a quality all its own.

  Joseph Stalin

  Intelligent, Quality, Quantity And Quality

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