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• The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Book, Quality

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

  Isaac Newton

  Space, People, Bears

  Isaac Newton (1966). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The motion of bodies”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Demand, Cash, Increase

  "The Free Market and Its Enemies". Ludwig von Mises' speech to the Foundation for Economic Education, 1951.

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• The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.

  Alan Lightman

  Interesting, Target

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Mr g: A Novel About the Creation”, p.25, Vintage

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• The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a river, brook, &c. And I have known them make bargain and sale amongst themselves for a small piece or quantity of ground; notwithstanding a sinful opinion amongst many, that christians have right to heathen's lands.

  Roger Williams

  Christian, Land, Rivers

  "The Book of the Indians of North America". Book by Samuel G. Drake, 1835.

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• Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

  Theodor Adorno

  Numbers, Enlightenment, Doe

  Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer (1997). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.7, Verso

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• I guess for me, balance isn't about treating your time like a pie chart and dividing it into equally sized slices for you, the kids, work, and so on. It's about the quality of how you spend your time, not the quantity--are you being present and focused on whatever you're doing while you're doing it? I truly believe that's how you can be the best version of yourself, whether you're in work mode, mom mode, or wife mode. When I know I'm giving my undivided attention in each of these areas, I don't feel so guilty about the time spent away from them.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Believe, Kids

  Jessica Alba (2013). “The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You”, p.181, Rodale

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• The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Results, Units, Equations

  James Clerk Maxwell (2002). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.518, Cambridge University Press

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• Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.

  Johannes Kepler

  Eye, Mind, Sound

  "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science". Book by Edwin Arthur Burtt, 1925.

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• Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.

  Johannes Kepler

  Quality, Vices, Vice Versa

  "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science". Book by Edwin Arthur Burtt, 1925.

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• The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?

  Thomas Malthus

  Country, Meat, Three

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi

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• Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

  Anton Chekhov

  Yield, Eight, Age

  Anton Chekhov's letter to P.A. Sergeenko, March 6, 1889.

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• Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

  John Buchan

  Organization, Quality, Merit

  John Buchan (1937). “Augustus”

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• All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

  John Arbuthnot

  Analysis, World, Politics

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• I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great many events which are accidental, besides those of games; only these cases would be infinitely more confused, as depending on chances which the most part of men are ignorant of.

  John Arbuthnot

  Confused, Believe, Men

  John Arbuthnot (1770). “Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”, p.260

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• Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Speed, Mass

  "Access", Issues 165-176, National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, (p. xxiii), 1984.

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• This, and no other, is justice: — to consider, under all the circumstances and consequences of a particular case, how the greatest quantity and purest quality of happiness will ensue from any action ... there is no other justice.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Justice, Quality, Action

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.263

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• One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Taken, Men, Important

  William Stanley Jevons (1973). “Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons”

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• Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gold, Sometimes, Silver

  "The Queer Feet: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

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• If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

  Louis Sullivan

  Men, Long, Mind

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• Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.

  Edward Bernays

  Typical, Demand, Today

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• Lessen the quantity of unnecessary thoughts and allow more space for the energy of love to flow within you.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Space, Meditation, Energy

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2014

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• Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all its different compounds and you will not be able to escape the following law: The different quantities of the same element contained in different molecules are all whole multiples of one and the same quantity, which always being entire, has the right to be called an atom.

  Stanislao Cannizzaro

  Science, Law, Molecules

  Stanislao Cannizzaro (1910). “Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy”

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• A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.

  Justus von Liebig

  Wise, Science, Want

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• The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

  Ronald Ross

  What If, Mosquitoes, Growing

  Sir Ronald Ross (1988). “The Great Malaria Problem and Its Solution”

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