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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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"A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy." »David Brooks
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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 quality rather than quantity that matters." »Seneca
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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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"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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"... 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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Something unknown is doing we don't know what." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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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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"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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"Failure is a word unknown to me." »Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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"Greater is our terror of the unknown." »Titus Livius
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"Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown." »Claude Bernard
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"All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown." »William Harvey
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"Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years." »William Golding
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"Praying is sending an SOS to the heavenly unknown." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." »J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
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"Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown." »Alan Watts
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"Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky." »Edgar Albert Guest
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"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known." »Thomas Pickering
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