#quantity

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

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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

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What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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