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“The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.”

Source: Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare

“A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.”

May Greater Quantity Lighters Digestion

Book:Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

“The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.”

Littles Water Democracy Greater Quantity

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.”

Mean Matter Values Greater Limits Infinite Assuming Quantity Finite Variables

Author:Georg Cantor

“Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.”

Art Important Life Is Numbers Greater Amount Activity Quantity

Book:PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983

Source: PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983

“... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.”

Humans Character Action Talking Greater Human Nature Areas Stupidity Quantity Words And Actions

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.”

Space Results Quality Greater Cost Exploration Quantity Space Exploration Space Travel Fervent Quantity And Quality

Author:James Van Allen

“I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.”

Men Book Different Wealth Greater Calling Importance Convinced Quantity Unwritten

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“There is no longer any question about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. The greater the quantity and assortment of fruits and vegetables consumed, the lower the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. There is still some controversy about which foods cause which cancers and whether certain types of fat are the culprits with certain cancers, but there's one thing we know for sure: raw vegetables and fresh fruits have powerful anti-cancer agents.”

Source: Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

“Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.”

Men Made Space Cities Quality Known Greater Sky Offers Machines West Wide Quantity Uncertain Frontiers Laboratory Skyscraper Open Spaces Wild West Wide Open Spaces

Author:Rem Koolhaas