Volume Quotes - Page 5

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

William Harvey

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For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

Charles Darwin

Opposites, Decision, Facts

Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the most fertile genius to say only what is new, would be to contract his volumes to a few pages. Yet, surely, there ought to be some bounds to repetition; libraries ought no more to be heaped for ever with the same thoughts differently expressed, than with the same books differently decorated.

Samuel Johnson

Book, Writing, Men

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

Imogen Cunningham

Nice, Portraits, Doe

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By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.

Bill Bryson

Rain, Coffee, Thinking

Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.279, Random House

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For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.

Washington Irving

History, Honor, Add

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Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

Fernando Botero

Real, Giving, Sculpture

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After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.

Martin Feldstein

Giving, Dollars, Ability

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The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

Bill Gates

Inspirational, Differences, People

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Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

Martin Feldstein

Dollars, Reduction, Given

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They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Rocks, Age, Shells

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If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.

Alice Cooper

Rock And Roll, Two, Causes

Song: Adaptable, Album: Zipper Catches Skin, 1982

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Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.

Amy Klobuchar

Quality, Way, Reform

"Klobuchar, Franken outline specifics on their health-care views". Interview with Cynthia Dizikes, www.minnpost.com. September 02, 2009.

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If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

Jonah Lehrer

Diversity, Creative, Important

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So when your mom walks in, turn down the volume and act like you're doing your homework.

Willie D

Mom, Education, Homework

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How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?

John Allen Paulos

New York, Blood, Years

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With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

Greg Lynn

Thinking, Space, Design

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If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.

Thomas Perry

Thinking, Nine, Firsts

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Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.

Alexandra Roach

Brilliant

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We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.

Susan Sontag

Art, Writing, Mean

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The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Journey, June, Mexico

Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.11

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Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.

Giambattista Valli

Beautiful, Color, Secret

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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

Abraham Verghese

School, Sight, Empathy

"'Literature about medicine may be all that can save us'" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

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I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, 'as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.'

Charles Darwin

Religious, Science, Men

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I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy.

Dierks Bentley

Rocks, Mixing, Energy

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