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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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"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." »Milan Kundera
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"People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." »Gary Zukav
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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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"It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books." »Voltaire
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"Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written." »Anonymous
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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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"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality." »George Santayana
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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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"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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"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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"Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk -- to be true to ourselves." »Jim Webb
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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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"The human mind is our fundamental resource." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." »Yasutani Roshi
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"The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see." »Kedar Joshi
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"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them." »Bertrand Russell
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"Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society." »Richard Royster
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"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality." »Albert Schweitzer
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius
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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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"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough." »Heinrich Heine
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"The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy
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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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"Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species." »Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
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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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