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• Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Patience, Foolish, Parliament

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.619, Lulu.com

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• A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case, the drawback is a straightforward consequence of America's approach to firearms. A well-armed citizenry required an even-better-armed constabulary. Widespread gun ownership creates a systematic climate of fear on the part of the police. The result is a quantity of police shootings that, regardless of the facts of any particular case, is just staggeringly high. Young black men, in particular, are paying the price for America's gun culture.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Gun, Men, America

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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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• Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gold, Sometimes, Silver

  "The Queer Feet: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

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• In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned to society. In my case, the ability to allocate capital would have had little utility unless I lived in a rich, populous country in which enormous quantities of marketable securities were traded and were sometimes ridiculously mispriced. And fortunately for me, that describes the U.S. in the second half of the last century.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Enormous Quantities, Society

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, Dark, Winter

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• Unfortunately, some of the young talants are becoming fashionable. And anything that's fashionable can become unfashionable. So one has to watch that. And it's very easy today because there are so many events - art fairs, gallery openings, etcetera. In fact, that's another thing that concerns me, the quantity of gallery openings. In my office in London, I get back after a week, and I have 30 invitations. It's too much.

  Laurence Graff

  Art, Office, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Alcohol, May

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• Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Eye, Essence, Two

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• A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

  Neil Peart

  Light, Color, Justice

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• The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

  James Mackintosh

  Coffee, Men, Mind

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• Being a wine enthusiast means you care more about quality than quantity.

  Jean-Claude Carriere

  Mean, Wine, Quality

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• Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.

  Alfred Binet

  Intelligent, Trying, Approval

  "Modern Ideas About Children". Book by Alfred Binet, 1909.

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• It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.

  Frederick The Great

  Country, Coffee, Food

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• It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

  Frederick The Great

  Country, Kings, War

  "Alcohol in the Western World" by Bert L. Vallée, Scientific American, Volume 278, No. 6, pp. 80-85, ru.scribd.com. June 1998.

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• I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.

  Eva Hesse

  Mean, Self, Want

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
  created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
  inalienable rights; that among these are life, and the right to
  make that of another miserable by thrusting upon him an
  incalculable quantity of acquaintances; liberty, particularly the
  liberty to introduce persons to one another without first
  ascertaining if they are not already acquainted as enemies; and
  the pursuit of another's happiness with a running pack of
  strangers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Men, Rights

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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• Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Quality

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• Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

  David F. Houston

  United States, Corn, Crops

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• It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.

  Lewis Thompson Preston

  Quality, Lending

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• We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Pieces, Littles, Infinite

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.7, Rodale

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• In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses.

  David Easton

  Animal, Thinking, Air

  David Easton (2007). “The Rammed Earth House”, p.54, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Book, Long, Feelings

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• As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.

  Leon Trotsky

  Animal, Reality, Men

  "Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): a reply to Karl Kantsky".

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