Quantity Quotes - Page 8

• People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Mcdonalds, People, Meals

  Christopher Brookmyre (2009). “Pandaemonium”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Life, Country, Keys

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• Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Numbers, World, Four

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.258, Courier Corporation

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• For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

  Aristotle

  Drinking, Mean, Exercise

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• I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Mean, Use

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• Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Pain, Grateful

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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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• It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.

  Frederick Soddy

  Destiny, Men, Hands

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

  Stephen Hawking

  Time, Moving, Two

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• Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of what goes on between organisms or inside organisms as part of their processes of thought.

  Gregory Bateson

  Numbers, Different

  "Number is Different from Quantity". CoEvolution Quarterly, www.oikos.org. Spring 1978.

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• There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

  Gregory Bateson

  Strong, Believe, Energy

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• Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.

  Edward Bernays

  Typical, Demand, Today

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• Lessen the quantity of unnecessary thoughts and allow more space for the energy of love to flow within you.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Space, Meditation, Energy

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2014

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• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Inspire, Intellectual

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Dissertations and Discussions”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.

  Samuel Beckett

  Our Generation, Somewhere Else, Laughing

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping on his knees and hands, trickling in glops down his legs, and dripping off the stool in sticky strands. It was in oozing ponds and crawling pools over most of the floor. Long fingers of it had crept into the hearth. It smelled vile.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Heart, Hands, Long

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