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• Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

  Andrew Solomon

  People, Needs, Belief

  Andrew Solomon (2017). “Far from the Tree: Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another . . . Our Differences Unite Us”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity, and with a monetary system which rigidly links the quantity of money to the stock of the precious metals, it will be essential for the maintenance of prosperity that the authorities should pay close attention to the state of the balance of trade. For a favourable balance, provided it is not too large, will prove extremely stimulating; whilst an unfavourable balance may soon produce a state of persistent depression.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Balance, Essentials, Attention

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.307, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.

  Carl Friedrich von Rumohr

  Animal, People, Profound

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• In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

  Arthur Balfour

  Life, Real, Work

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• There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine should be supplied with a tape bearing a random series of figures, e.g., 0 and 1 in equal quantities, and this series of figures should be used in the choices made by the machine. This would result in the behaviour of the machine not being by any means completely determined by the experiences to which it was subjected, and would have some valuable uses when one was experimenting with it.

  Alan Turing

  Art, Mean, Choices Made

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• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  Lord Dunsany

  Taken, Math, Statistics

  "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.

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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.

  Milton Friedman

  Investing, Output, Rapids

  Milton Friedman (1994). “Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

  David Ricardo

  Air, Water, Gold

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2

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• It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

  Gregory Bateson

  Insomnia, Principles, Patterns

  "Not Ours to Exploit" by Terry Tempest Williams, progressive.org. February 23, 2012.

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• Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Increase, Rendering

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

  Gregory Bateson

  Sex, Fall, Simplicity

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• Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

  Chip Heath

  Decisions We Make, Choices, Luck

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• The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the other the conditions that also associate with obesity and diabetes, such as gout, asthma, and fatty liver disease), is that what makes us fat - the quality and quantity of carbohydrates we consume - also makes us sick.

  Gary Taubes

  Cancer, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals

  Jules Henry

  Successful, Animal, Vaccines

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• There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.

  Georg Cantor

  Doubt, Variables, Facts

  "'Over the different views with regard to the actual infinite numbers' ('Ueber die verschiedenen Ansichten in Bezug auf die actualunendlichen Zahlen')". Book by Georg Cantor, 1886.

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• As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Meat, Dry, Bread

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• People who are contented and serene sleep well. They fall asleep easily, stay asleep, and wake refreshed. Conversely, people who are anxious, stressed, or depressed do not sleep well, and chronic insomnia is strongly associated with mood disorders. These are clear correlations, but what is cause and what is effect is not clear. Most experts agree that sleep and mood are closely related, that healthy sleep can enhance emotional well-being, while insufficient quantity or quality of sleep can adversely affect it.

  Andrew Weil

  Fall, Sleep, Insomnia

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• Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Prayer, Offering, Quality

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• But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.

  Johann Bernoulli

  Education, Math, Derivatives

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• I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.

  Maurice Ravel

  Littles, Composer, Worst

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• The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Quality, Information

  Brian TRACY (2009). “Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life”, p.13, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

  Sydney Brenner

  House, Tests, Chemistry

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• The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Political, Gold, Merit

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• Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

  Chuck D

  Successful, America, Black

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

  Christian Siriano

  Trying, Quality, Pieces

  "Project Runway's Fiercest Designer Ever". Interview with Leonora Epstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 29, 2008.

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