Quantity Quotes - Page 15

• Arms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against the common enemy without any charge at all, and in quantities determined by the need and their availability.

  Che Guevara

  Our World, Availability, Enemy

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• Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.

  Edward Thorndike

  Knowing, Quality, Wells

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1962). “Psychology and the Science of Education: Selected Writings”

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• The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid.

  Charles Babbage

  Space, Aids, Circumstances

  Charles Babbage (1826). “On the Influence of Signs in Mathematical Reasoning”, p.6

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• The assumption that the square of a unit vector
  is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
  quantities are non-associative.

  Cargill Gilston Knott

  Squares, Unity, Vectors

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• The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent period encumbered mathematics in all those branches involving the consideration of negative and impossible quantities, will at once occur to the reader who is at all versed in this science, and would alone suffice to justify dwelling somewhat on the point, in connexion with any subject so peculiarly fitted to give forcible illustration of it as the Analytical Engine.

  Ada Lovelace

  Dwelling, Illustration, Giving

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• The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Real, Soul, Quality

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.237, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.

  Sigmund Freud

  Believe, Expression, Principles

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made.

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Men, Ideas, Abundance

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• My sense is that we are looking at unbelievable quantities of wealth moving from the control of the kingdom of darkness, to the control of the Kingdom of God.

  C. Wagner

  Moving, Darkness, Kingdoms

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• I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits.

  Bui Diem

  Vietnam, Habit, Provoked

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• We have here a proof that there is in the atom a fundamental quantity, which increases by regular steps as one passes from one element to the next. This quantity can only be the charge on the central positive nucleus, of the existence of which we already have definite proof.

  Henry Moseley

  Nucleus, Next, Steps

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• Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.

  Seth Lloyd

  School, Law, Car

  Nature 430, 971, August 26, 2004.

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• I'm older, wiser and richer, and I still have just as many headaches. It hasn't changed me drastically; certainly, not in terms of relationships. The people I'm close to, and there aren't many of them, have been close for a long time. And we know each other well enough to know it isn't the quantity of time you spend together, it's the quality.

  Billy Squier

  Long, People, Quality

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• But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.

  John Chamberlain

  Wisdom, Moving, Car

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• It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future event. In order to anticipate correctly they must also anticipate correctly the quantity as it were of each factor's contribution and the instant at which its contribution will become effective.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Determination, Order, Events

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• In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.

  Robert Gilpin

  Running, Believe, Historical

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.336, Princeton University Press

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• The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes - that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central point enveloped by an elastic atmosphere, which is retained in its position by attractive forces, and that the elasticity due to heat arises from the centrifugal force of those atmospheres revolving or oscillating about their nuclei or central points.According to this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis viva of the molecular revolutions or oscillations.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Atmosphere, Atoms, Nucleus

  William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait (1881). “Miscellaneous Scientific Papers”

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• The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money to be true.

  Paul Ormerod

  Order, Supposing That, Might

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want.

  Leonard Wibberley

  Vices, Answers, Want

  "The Mouse that Roared". Book by Leonard Wibberley, p. 5, 1983.

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• Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

  Irving Howe

  Writing, Suggestions, Anecdotes

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• Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.

  Dean Keith Simonton

  Creativity, Quality, Rubbish

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• Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal

  George Dantzig

  Military, War, Moving

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• A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

  Rajneesh

  Men, Small Rooms, Clothes

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• What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Moving, Quality, Needs

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity.

  Mark Oliver

  Snowfall, Normal, Range

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