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• Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Quality, Doe

  Walter Bagehot (1872). “The English Constitution ... Reprinted from the"Fortnightly Review."”, p.194

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• What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active. Otherwise they will become inert, as inert as trees and stones. So, I say, eat large quantities of fish and meat, my boy!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Boys, Land

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• We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.

  W. Phillip Keller

  Christian, Character, People

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• The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

  Antony Flew

  Christian, Religious, Miracle

  Gary R. Habermas, Antony Flew, David J. Baggett (2009). “Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew”, p.85, InterVarsity Press

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• Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men.

  Alexis Carrel

  Dark, Men, Age

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.

  Milton Friedman

  Garden, Government, Investing

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• A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.

  Haim Harari

  Suicide, Israel, Produce

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• In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

  Paul Valery

  Math, Quality, World

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• Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite of the abstract nature of its theory, involving quantities whose nature is entirely unknown at the present, is really and truly founded on the observations of real Newtonian forces, electric and magnetic respectively.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Nature, Real, Science

  Oliver Heaviside (2003). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.9, American Mathematical Soc.

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• Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body once moved will always keepe ye same celerity, quantity & determination of its motion.

  Isaac Newton

  Determination, Science, Body

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• ...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Done, May

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.120

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• We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece.

  Simon McBurney

  Inspirational, Work, People

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• Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dignity, Cupid

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 226

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• If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more. One other thing, quality comes with practice. If you are prolific, then you become a better writer because you are writing. The more you do anything the better at it you will become. So in a way, quantity does add to quality.

  Larry Correia

  Writing, Practice, Hustle

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• Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Hands, Agriculture

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.213, Best Books on

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• But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.

  Eva Herzigova

  Fish Tanks, Meat, Cheese

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• If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.

  Napoleon Hill

  Honesty, Believe, Hard Work

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.95, Lulu.com

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• I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.

  Graham Hancock

  Believe, Thinking, Roots

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• Anytime you are with a horse, no matter if you are a daily rider or one who just gets a chance to ride to the mailbox, you are interacting with your horse. It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity. Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Communication, Quality

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• What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

  Albert Einstein

  Quality, Life Is, Value Of Life

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• What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Knowing, Important, Quality

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• I have come to realize it's not the
  QUANTITY of LOVE but instead the
  QUALITY

  Shannon Elizabeth

  Quality, Realizing

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• ...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Technology, One Direction

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• The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Ideas, Alcohol, Scare

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• Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It’s about value, not quantity.

  Jason Wu

  Special, Values

  "What A Difference A Day Makes: An Interview With The Suddenly Superfamous Designer Jason Wu". Interview with Lesley M. M. Blume, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2009.

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