Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume."
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Volume
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Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is."
Gunter Grass
Novelist
"Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance."
Walter Russell
Artist, Author, Philosopher
"Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves."
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"We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored."
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"Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers."
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"Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume."
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"Within the book and volume of thy brain."
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"Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?"
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"Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you."
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"Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom."
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"The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions."
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"Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work."
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"New York is like America with the volume turned up to 10."
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"But the silence spoke volumes."
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"With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book."
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"The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming."
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"There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work."
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