#quantities

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. ↗

— John Tukey

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Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities. ↗

— Marvin Harris

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But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

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These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. ↗

— John T. Flynn

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They continued but six days under this course, having consumed the quantities that could be spared. ↗

— James Lind

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All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

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You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket. ↗

— Kary Mullis

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I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#faces #human #many #more #person

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

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