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• I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

  Connor Franta

  Quality, Work In Progress, Decent

  Connor Franta (2015). “A Work in Progress: A Memoir”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I like big drinks that aren't afraid of the alcohol in them. Not big in size, but in flavor, and the way I can allow myself to enjoy them is by making them in very small quantities. I make tiny glasses of very big drinks.

  Rachel Maddow

  Glasses, Alcohol, Flavor

  "Rachel Maddow’s Star Power". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2009.

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• Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.

  Burt Rutan

  Reality, Years, Ideas

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• No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that every inflation has been accompanied by a rapid increase in the quantity of money and every deflation by a decline in the quantity of money.

  Milton Friedman

  Bankers, Rapids, Increase

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• This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues.

  Stewart Brand

  Technology, Issues, Energy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

  Chuck D

  Successful, America, Black

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

  Christian Siriano

  Trying, Quality, Pieces

  "Project Runway's Fiercest Designer Ever". Interview with Leonora Epstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 29, 2008.

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• A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

  Alfred Binet

  Memories, Intelligent, Practice

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• Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, and is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Mean, Quality, Progress

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• Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

  George Santayana

  Progress, Quality, Speak

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

  Carl Bernstein

  Missing, Quality, News

  "The failures of the press". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

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• A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us as we now are, or shall we seek instead to remain an enigma, an uncertain quantity , wishing to be seen as something we are not?

  Sidney Jourard

  Men, Choices, Wish

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• You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

  Tom Peters

  Motivation, Work, Numbers

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• Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

  William Allen White

  Men, Greatness, Quality

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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 saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot 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

  Music, Numbers, Use

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

  John Tukey

  Focus, Statistics, Unexpected

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• He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Numbers, Three, Distinction

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• Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.

  Ada Lovelace

  Errors, Giving, Letters

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• There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

  Anthony Hecht

  Memories, Library, Poet

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• The worth of a person’s thought is measured not by the quantity but by the quality of the support that it has got and this quality is defined by a single factor, which is only people’s human character.

  Anuj

  Character, People, Support

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• No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.

  Gordon Moore

  Jobs, Forever

  "Another decade for Moore's Law?". www.cnn.com. February 11, 2003.

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• A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Intellectual, Brain

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• A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.

  E. M. Forster

  Novelists, Fiction, Sometimes

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• Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Ideas, Quality, Remember

  Joel Greenblatt (2010). “You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market P”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Food, Quality, Essentials

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.21, A&C Black

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