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Source: A MODERN INSTANCE (American Classics Series)

“Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.”

Wish Comfort Goodness Weak Defense Noble Quantity Perpetual Refuge Towers Distress

Book:Detached links, extracts from the writings and discourses of J. Parker, compiled by J. Lucas

Source: Detached links, extracts from the writings and discourses of J. Parker, compiled by J. Lucas

“Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me!”

Values Information Judging Accepted Professors Quantity Pupils Conservatory

Author:Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

“Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.”

Race Class Quantity Working Class Great Unknown

Author:Keir Hardie

“Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.”

Values Quality Excellence Quantity

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.”

Sometimes States Whole Individual Mistake Elements Mass Enthusiasm Contribution Making Mistakes Collectives Quantity Decline Insignificant Decrease Corrections

Author:Che Guevara

“The U.S. couldn't play a military role in different areas like Iraq and Afghanistan without huge quantities of oil. So a shortage or disruption in oil would not only damage the U.S. economy; it would undercut American military supremacy.”

Different Play Roles Economy Military Huge Areas Iraq Oil Damage Afghanistan Quantity Disruption Shortage Supremacy American Military Undercut

Author:Michael Klare

“Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.”

“A basic all-purpose rub: mix together one or two tablespoons equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, and onion powder. That will give you real good base for any kind of meat. Just increase the amount if you're grilling large quantities.”

Ifs Giving Kind Two Real Together Purpose Black Amount Equal Increase Meat Quantity Onions Powder Peppers Garlic Grilling Black Pepper

Author:Johnny Trigg

“It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.”

Thinking Trying Hands Would Be Weight Filled Trials Bitter Cups Quantity Arrangements Affliction

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.”

Doe Quality Creativity Youth Machines Quantity Spontaneity Beauty Of Life

Author:William S. Burroughs

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

Unity Characteristics Assumption Squares Quantity Units Algebra Vectors

Author:Cargill Gilston Knott

“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.”

Space Circumstances Aids Reasoning Quantity Accustomed Facilitate Small Spaces

Book:On the Influence of Signs in Mathematical Reasoning

Source: On the Influence of Signs in Mathematical Reasoning

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

Knows Wells Quality Knowing Amount Quantity

Book:Psychology and the Science of Education: Selected Writings

Source: Psychology and the Science of Education: Selected Writings

“I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.”

Character Church Animal Civilization Kitchen Fancy Suspects Quantity Reformation Animal Food

Book:Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American

Source: Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American

“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.”

World Needs Should Use Common Enemy Arms Asking Determined Our World Quantity Availability Merchandise Common Enemy

Author:Che Guevara

“I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.”

Bread Quantity Sauce Lemons Relish Oysters Peppers Bread And Butter

Book:The Confessions of Fitz-Booddle; and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan

Source: The Confessions of Fitz-Booddle; and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan

“Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.”

Mean Decision Numbers Existence Steps Degrees Definitions Proof Reaching Quantity Finite Accuracy Finite Number

Author:Leopold Kronecker

“I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.”

Film Offers Experiments Makers Quantity

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.”

Ifs Real Facts Land Shadow Infinite Credit Fixed Fund Quantity Urban Estates Instability Interfaces Purchasing Constrain Purchasing Power

Author:Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

“You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts.”

Quality Quantity

Author:Bruno Zheng Wu

“It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.”

Ifs Wonderful Diets Quantity

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“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.”

“Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion; it produces it in all things that are capable of agreement and differences in any way at all, whether substantially or accidentally.”

Way Differences Numbers Produce Capable Consequence All Things Proportion Comparison Agreement Quantity

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“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.”

Believe Facts Pleasure Principles Expression Lows Constant Quantity Hypothesis Dominance Endeavour

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

“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.”

Real Soul Spirit Quality Depth Purity Quantity Gestures Fortitude Real Questions

Book:The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

“When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.”

“The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero.”

People Should Done Use Law Fall Force Easy Term Pay Demand Economics Crosses Raises Zero Fewer Quantity Crossings Hiroshima Rationalize Use Of Force

Author:Bryan Caplan

“The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility over specialization. With such an ethic, consumers would demand a shift toward more timeless design, away from fast-moving trends. Clothes could become more versatile in terms of what they can be used for, their ability to fit differently shaped bodies and to be altered.”

“We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.”

Turns Quality Compare Quantity

Book:Society Of Mind

Source: Society Of Mind

“Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.”

Different Character Government Age Groups Resources Claims Protection Advertising Vulnerable Consumers Vulnerability Guarantees Stations Quantity Vary Advertisements Consumer Protection

Book:Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society

Source: Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society

“Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)”

“My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.”

Wealth Creativity Photograph Quantity

Author:Destin Sparks

“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

“Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it is my daily habit to run to him with every glass upon which a fresh glory is newly stamped, and to listen to his enthusiastic applause. This habit of running into the dining-room with my wet pictures has stained such an immense quantity of table linen with nitrate of silver, indelible stains, that I should have been banished from any less indulgent household.”

“The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.”

May Doe Use Numbers Garden Plant Intention Careful Possession Great Things Collections Quantity Definite Selection

Book:On Gardening

Source: On Gardening

“Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.”

Produce Increase Quantity Inflation Rapids Decrease

Book:Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History

Source: Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History

“The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller quantity or lower quality of medical care, as other countries with government-run medical care do.”

Doe Country Government Care Running Quality Magic Cost Medical Health Care Quantity Other Countries Wands Medical Care Magic Wands

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.”

Men Quality Wise Quantity

Author:Seneca the Younger

“If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced about 60 years ago, all those new products whose consumption has raised the standard of living of the 'common man' would either not be produced at all or only in small quantities for the benefit of a minority. The Ford enterprises would not exist if Henry Ford's profits had been taxed away as soon as they came into being.”

“I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.”

Hard Quality Watches Focus Tests These Days Quantity Once Upon A Time

Author:David Campese

“As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.”

Government Quality Our Lives Increase Quantity Decrease

Author:Joel Miller

“No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.”

Results Members Increase Welfare Quantity Availability

Book:The Theory of Money and Credit

Source: The Theory of Money and Credit

“I eat the same foods but half the quantity.”

Half Quantity

Author:Myleene Klass

“There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.”

Years Has Beens Known Progress Quantity Reducing Psychedelic Ecstatic Psychedelic Experience

Author:Terence McKenna

“Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying education from without. No one knoweth the things of the man except the spirit of man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education, and as soon as a young child begins his education, he does so as a student. Our business is to give him mind stuff. Both quantity and quality are essential.”

“Your busy schedule has plenty of quantity. Think of how you could give it some true quality and meaning. Consider the people, the beliefs, the goals, the things which are really imp9ortant to you. Make time for them, not someday, but right now. Don't just fill your schedule. Fill your life.”

People Thinking Giving Belief Goal Quality Right Now Busy Plenty Someday Quantity Schedules Making Time Busy Schedules

Author:Ralph Marston

“It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.”

Certain Ought Degrees University Quantity Pledge

Book:Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

“After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the same politicians are now carrying on a crusade for 'affordable health care.' But what you can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. Refusing to pay those costs means that you are just not going to continue getting the same quantity and quality - regardless of what any politician says or how well he says it.”

“When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try to make up in quantity and complexity what they lack in quality. That's bullshit! They're just hiding their bullshit!”

People Want Trying Book Sound Quality Smart Add Sentences Complexity Hiding Quantity Bullshit Paragraph Syllables

Author:Robert McKee

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