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Quotations regarding 'Quantity'

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That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.
Julian Assange, Australian Activist
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.
Charles Babbage, English Mathematician (1792-1871)
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
Irving Babbitt, American Critic (1865-1933)
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt, American Critic (1865-1933)
I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.
Joe Baca, American Politician (1947-  )
Number is different from quantity.
Gregory Bateson, British Scientist (1904-1980)
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
Gregory Bateson, British Scientist (1904-1980)
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
Gregory Bateson, British Scientist (1904-1980)
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
Carl Bernstein, American Journalist (1944-  )
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
George Boole, Irish Mathematician (1815-1864)
In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
Walther Bothe, German Physicist (1891-1957)
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
Giraldus Cambrensis, Welsh Clergyman
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher (1795-1881)
We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.
Howard Carter, English Scientist (1874-1939)
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing, American Writer (1780-1842)
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin, Polish Composer (1810-1849)
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge, American President (1872-1933)
The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
Vincent D'Onofrio, American Actor (1959-  )
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens, English Novelist (1812-1870)
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