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"Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"It is quality rather than quantity that matters." »Seneca
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"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written." »Anonymous
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"It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books." »Voltaire
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"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality." »George Santayana
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"A man is measured by the quantity of what he produces, never the quality of his dreams." »Martin Tobias Lithner
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"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up." »Mark Twain
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"... information can be treated like any other quantity and be subjected to the manipulation of a machine." »Stan Aogartem
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"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity." »Horace Mann
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"There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality." »The Talmud
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"The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it." »Charles Dickens
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"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde
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"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can." »Cullen Hightower
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"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." »Rmy de Gourmont
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"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde
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"No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever." »Gordon Moore, in a keynote address at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in 2003
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"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them." »Laurence J. Peter
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"The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor." »John F. Kennedy
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"Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple." »Gerald W. Grummet
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"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." »Vince Lombardi
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"It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully." »Doug Vargas
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"It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism." »H. P. Lovecraft
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"148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man)." »Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)
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"We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them." »Tsutomu Shimomura
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"If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." »David Hume
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"It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing." »Andrea Canaan
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"Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face." »Vaclav Havel
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