Emile Zola
Novelist
"If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity."
Quantity quotes
Quantity
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Baltasar Gracian
Philosopher, Writer
"Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value."
John Cage
Composer, Musician
"We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities."
Alice James
Writer
"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."
Johannes Kepler
Astronomer, Mathematician
"[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories."
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"Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things."
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"It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending."
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"That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body."
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"It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!"
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"Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest."
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"Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside."
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"I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place."
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"A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others."
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"I have come to realize it's not the QUANTITY of LOVE but instead the QUALITY"
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"The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all."
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"It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice."
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